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ΕasyJet airline has decided to add a flight between the Greek island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea and Stansted Airport in London to its Greek destinations this summer, the airline announced on Thursday.

With the addition of the new flight, Zakynthos will now have a direct link to two London airports, Stansted and Gatwick.

The number of passengers attended by Sofia Airport reached four million on Monday, a record high, airport officials say.

Of them, 1.5 million flew to or from Terminal 1, and 2.5 million used Terminal 2, which opened in 2006.

Last year, some 3.8 million people departed from or arrived at the airport.

An easyJet pilot, Wayne Mott, joked that he would write excuses for students on board who missed school because of the delay, according to Road Warrior Voices.

But 31 of them took him up on his offer surprising the pilot.

The German ailrline of Lufthansa Group announced that it will include two Greek islands, Santorini and Corfu, in its summer schedule for 2016.

It will launch flights from Munich to Santorini and Corfu once a week and the two flights are expected to operate in mid-May 2016 aiming to facilitate the passengers during the summer period.

Thomas Cook has added the Greek island of Thassos to its 2016 programme with two flights a week departing on Thomas Cook Airlines every Friday from London Gatwick and Manchester.

An Easyjet plane flying from Gatwick to Crete was forced to land at Marco Polo airport, Venice, after the pilot lost consciousness. The co-pilot was forced to land the plane as paramedics rushed to meet the jet on the tarmac.

The pilot is now in hospital in a non-life threatening condition.

Passenger traffic in Athens International Airport rose 14.7% in September to 1.8 million, from 1.6 million passengers compared with the same month last year.

The Athens airport recorded a new passenger traffic record in the January-September period with a total of around 14 million passengers.

The Airline Meals site offers a huge photo archive of inflight meals, documented since 2001, to show the history of flight food. Already there are 35,000 images from 700 airlines from around the world as well as reviews. A sneak sample of some dishes:

From Spain to United Kingdom, Economy Class, BA

Low-cost airline carrier easyJet launches Sofia- London Stansted flights in December.

The company, which currently operates flights to London Gatwick, has included in its winter schedule two flights a week to London Stansted, one on Tuesday and one on Saturday, with the first one scheduled to take place on December 12, 2015, according to reports of dnevnik.bg.

By Alexandra Kassimi

Over 140 weekly flights on new routes, an additional 189 flights on existing routes and 10 new destinations make up the picture at Athens International Airport this summer, which will likely be a very busy one.