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The turnover of Greece's flagcarrier Aegean Airlines rose 17% to 268.8 million euros in the first quarter of 2024 on an annual basis.

Following the positive momentum of 2023, Aegean continued its upward trend with a further increase in capacity in the winter months.

The Holy Light is expected to arrive at Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” from Jerusalem, under the care of the Greek government – Aegean and Olympic Air will transport it to 9 regions while SKY Express to 7

Some of the quickest flights span 2 to 20 minutes, including one over the Aegean Sea

This is promising to be a year of record performance for Aegean Airlines, with the first half of 2023 expected to be profitable for the first time in the history of the carrier, Greece's biggest.

In the first quarter of 2023, Aegean improved its aircraft load factor to over 83%.

"I was asking questions and I was not getting any answer," she said. "I could have taken legal action against the company like others did, but I didn't want to get into this process."

"Any company would prefer to keep hold of our money until it recovers, but the way they communicated it was very misleading; they did it in an authoritarian way," Bakali told BIRN.

Air commuters will face disruptions on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air announced they are canceling or rescheduling their domestic and international flights today due to a series of work stoppages over the next three days by employees of the Civil Aviation Service, including the Greek Air Traffic Controllers Association (EEEKE) and the Union of Air Traffic Safe

Aegean Airlines on Monday announced the suspension of all international flights as of Thursday until April 30.
It follows the new restrictions imposed by the government, including the suspension of all international flights to and from Italy, Spain, Turkey and Britain.

Greece's largest carrier Aegean Airlines has expressed interest in the privatization of Croatia Airlines and submitted a non-binding bid, it said on Friday.

Aegean, a member of the Star Alliance group, said any decision on whether it would take part in the next phase of the state-owned Croatian carrier's privatization would be taken in the coming months.

Greek airline Sky Express said on Thursday it had signed an agreement with Qatar Airways to cooperate on flights connecting Doha with the Greek islands, in a boost to the country's key tourism industry.

Tourism accounts for about a quarter of economic output in Greece, which saw a record number of about 33 million visitors last year.

Chairman of Aegean Airlines Eftichios Vassilakis (r), CEO of Aegean Airlines Dimitris Gerogiannis (l) and CEO of Airbus Dr Tom Enders (c) are seen signing a deal for the order of up to 42 aircraft to renew the Greek carrier's fleet of single-aisle planes, on Friday. [EPA]