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The Single-Member Plenary Court of Thessaloniki imposed a total sentence of eight months in prison, suspended for three years, on a 60-year-old man who was arrested at Macedonia airport for carrying two suitcases filled with cigarettes that did not have the required tax bands.

Aegean Airlines and Germany's Condor canceled flights to Beirut on Tuesday.

They are the latest airlines to suspend flights to the Lebanese capital in recent days as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah escalate.

Aegean said it would suspend flights until Thursday, while Condor canceled its Tuesday flight from Düsseldorf.

This picture taken on July 25, 2024, shows passengers queuing under the schedule board at the departures hall at Frankfurt's International Airport, western Germany, after activists of the Letzte Generation (Last Generation) movement glued themselves on the tarmac.

In 2023, Sofia Airport saw a significant recovery in passenger numbers, surpassing pre-pandemic levels observed in 2019. According to a report from "SOF Connect," over 7,208,000 passengers traveled through the airport last year, marking an increase of 1.2 million compared to 2022.

The Polish government has decided to continue the construction of a large new airport in the center of the country, which will be ready by 2032 and will be able to accommodate 34 million travelers annually, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Wednesday.

At the beginning of the summer, the Bulgarian national carrier once again pleasantly surprised all travelers with the opening of two new direct lines from the seaside city of Varna - to the Czech capital Prague and to the German metropolis Frankfurt.

Lufthansa City Airlines, a new low-cost airline, will make its first flight on June 26, focusing on connecting flights for its parent company from hubs in Frankfurt and Munich. According to Euronews, Bulgaria is among its destinations. The airline will start flights this month to Berlin, Bremen, Cologne Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, and Hanover.

As a result of the accession of Bulgaria to the Schengen area from the end of March 2024, a change is also required at Sofia airport regarding the gates used by passengers for domestic routes in the country operated by the national carrier.

A Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Dubai has been diverted to Rhodes where it landed just before 6 p.m. Monday.

The A330 plane's approach sounded the alarm to the local Fire Service, as there was information of smoke inside the plane, toward the back.

Flights abroad for the long weekends of Clean Monday and Independence Day on March 25 are showing increased occupancy rates of over 75%.

For those departing this weekend from Athens, the most popular destinations are Oslo, Bologna, Geneva, Amsterdam and Lisbon, while those departing from Thessaloniki mainly travel to Frankfurt, Berlin, Larnaca, Munich and Dusseldorf.