Low-cost airlines

Supermodel Kate Moss has been escorted off a plane after reportedly being disruptive while traveling from Turkey to London's Luton airport.

A Ryanair plane was struck by a bird while landing at Plovdiv Airport at about 21:00 on Wednesday evening, local news sources say.

The bird seems to have caused engine trouble to the Boeing aircraft, and it took repair workers a few hours to fix it, daily Trud reports.

The aircraft managed to take off at 01.35 EEST on Thursday morning.

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.

Qatar Airways is increasing flights to Athens from Doha with the addition of a third flight to operate daily from June 1. This will raise the number of weekly flights to the Greek capital from 14 to 21 flights per week.

The Athens-Doha route, carried out by Airbus 320, 321 and 330, will be one of 146 destinations around the globe carried out by the airline.

Turkish Airlines, the country's national flag-carrier, has announced it increased its total number of passengers by 6.5 percent in the first quarter of 2015 compared to the same period of the previous year.

The total number of passengers in the first quarter of 2015 was 12.8 million compared to 12 million in January-March 2014, according to a statement from the company on April 14.

Hundreds of flights to and from France were expected to be canceled April 8 as air traffic controllers launched a two-day strike over working conditions.

The civil aviation authority has asked airlines to scrap around 40 percent of flights, warning of "disruption across the whole country."

The new tourist season kicked off on Zakynthos with the first flight from Great Britain made at 11.30 a.m. on Sunday. EasyJet's flight carried the first 171 British passengers to the island.

RyanAir has a flight scheduled on April 3 from Belgium.

Airlines rushed on March 26 to change their rules so as to require a second crew member in the cockpit at all times, hours after French prosecutors suggested a co-pilot who barricaded himself alone at the controls of a jetliner had crashed it on purpose.
   

Lowcost airlines easyJet, Air Transat and Norwegian Air Shuttle have announced a change in the rules for pilots during flights.

According to the rule amendments, there should always be two crew members in the cockpit. Whenever one of the pilots needs to leave, the main air hostess will substitute them.

The Germanwings passenger plane fragments scattered across an Alpine mountains are all that is left of the Airbus A320 carrying 150 people en route to Dusseldorf, Germany, from Barcelona, Spain.