Aegean Airlines

Aegean Air announced on Sunday the cancelation of two flights on Monday, to and from Berlin, due to the strike of staff at the Tegel airport.

The 24-hour industrial action at the German capital's airport means Aegean has canceled its A3 852 Athens-Berlin flight that normally departs at 8.30 a.m., and the A3 853 Berlin-Athens service that departs at 11.15 a.m. local time.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has rebuffed Greek accusations that Ankara is escalating tensions in the Aegean, and attributed the recent friction to Athens, citing "provocative" comments by Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, the leader of the junior coalition party, the Independent Greeks (ANEL).

On the 21st anniversary of the Kardak/Imia crisis, at the end of last month, there was a marked tension between Turkey and Greece. 

Turkey has extended the scope of a $6,000 financial backing program for travel agencies carrying tourists to the country in a bid to enliven the sector, Reuters has reported. 

Greece will defend its interests in the Aegean Sea as well as the Eastern Mediterranean, the chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff said Tuesday during a presentation of the NATO member-nation's strategic priorities for the next few years.

The Union of Hotel Owners of Thessaloniki came back from Tel Aviv, Israel after a series of promising meetings in the International Tourism Exhibition IMTM that took place between February 7th and 8th.

Aegean Air on Thursday announced the start of a direct service linking Thessaloniki's Makedonia Airport with Tel Aviv three times per week, as of May 29 and up to October 15.

“We are simply better than the Turks”, said the Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff, Lieutenant General Christos Christodoulou during a press briefing.

Aegean Motorway, the highway construction and operation consortium that the Infrastructure Ministry had said would not get any fresh funds given that its project (on the Athens-Thessaloniki national road) was advanced enough, is after all recieving additional money set to total tens of millions of euros.

As authorities scramble to improve accommodation for thousands of migrants on Aegean islands amid forecasts of a new cold snap, a spokesperson for the United Nations refugee agency said Greek authorities have ignored proposals on how to ameliorate living conditions.