Aegean Airlines

Polish Airlines (LOT) and Turkish Airlines (THY) inked a letter of understanding to initiate enhanced cooperation on Aug. 13, Turkish Airlines has said in a statement.

Aegean Airlines offer special benefits for family travelers:

* All infants up to 2 years old travel for free within Greece for bookings until September 30 for flights until January 30, 2016.

Capital controls and a yearning for ever nearing summer holidays in the Aegean are apparently now exporting “urban legends” from Greece, with the latest starting along the lines of “… Did ya hear the one about the Greek F-16 pilot who landed in Turkey to withdraw money…?”

Turkish Airlines, Europe?s fourth-largest carrier, has announced it carried some 28.5 million passengers in the first six months of the year, an 8.5 percent increase over the same period of the previous year, in a written statement to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) on July 14.

In the worst hours of concern over the potential Greek default and "Grexit" last weekend, groups of prominent Turkish and Greek businessmen gathered on the Greek island of Rhodes to brainstorm ways to further boost their annual $5.5 billion trade. 

Aegean Airlines has scheduled extra flights from London to Brussels so that Greeks living abroad can come to Greece to vote in the referendum due to take place on July 5, 2015. Specifically:

AEGEAN, a member of the Star Alliance family won the “Best Regional Airline in Europe for 2015″ award during the Skytrax World Airline Awards in Paris. At the same time, it also won second place in the “World Regional Airline” category.

For the second time in as many days, Turkish fighter jets violated Greek national air space in the central and southeastern Aegean on Wednesday, defense officials said.

Turkish shipowners have taken over the reigns of transport to and from the Aegean islands. Greek shipowners from the islands of Chios, Mytilene, Kos and Rhodes have either withdrawn or have become agents for Turkish carriers so as to ensure their survival. A number of Turkish ferries have left their regular routes at the Bosphorus Strait for a bite of the East Aegean.

Ankara appears to be intent on creating a new firing range beneath Aegean air space, according to diplomatic sources who have expressed growing concern about a shift in Turkey?s stance even as bilateral talks on confidence-building measures draw near.