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A four-member family - mother, father and two children - died after the small plane they traveled from Ohrid to Sofia crashed in Macedonia.

Passenger traffic in Greek airports grew 10.7 pct in the first two months of 2019, totaling 4,237,786 passengers, from 3,828,882 in the corresponding period last year, the Civil Aviation Authority said in a report released on Thursday.

No Greek airline has Boeing 737 Max aircraft models in its fleet, the country's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said in a press release on Wednesday.

Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza was onboard the government plane that landed at Athens International Airport on Saturday, the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said on Tuesday.

Gatwick airport, the UK's second largest airport, was closed for most of Wednesday night and Thursday morning after it received reports of two drones flying nearby, reports The Guardian, quoted by the Verge.

Passenger traffic through Greek airports increased 9.9 percent in the first 10 months of the year compared to the same period of 2017, according to figures released by the Civil Aviation Authority.

In fact, the total number of passengers to Greece in the year to end-October was greater than the figure for the whole of 2017.

More than 44 million passengers used Greek airports in the January-to-August 2018 period, up 9.9 percent from the same period in 2017, while there was also an 8.7 percent increase in the number of flights, Civil Aviation Authority figures have shown.

Two years after legislation designed to restructure Greece's civil aviation system was approved in Parliament, presidential decrees have been issued splitting the Civil Aviation Authority (YPA) into two separate bodies - an independent agency (APA) that will oversee all of the country's 44 airports, both private and state-run, and a civil aviation service that will only manage the state-owned o

Greece is enjoying a very successful year in terms of tourist arrivals, based on official figures released by the Civil Aviation Authority, Fraport and the Athens International Airport for the January-July 2018 period.

Pressured by the explosive growth of passenger numbers generated by Greece's expanding tourism market, officials are calling for additional air traffic controllers to ensure safe travel.

In 2014, the Greece's Civil Aviation Authority (YPA) was asked to hire an additional 70 air traffic controllers.