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The number of US tourists visiting Greece has increased substantially, to the point where they are about to displace the French in absolute numbers this year, behind the Germans and the British.

Moreover, US tourists tend to stay longer and spend more than others.

The annual international food and drink exhibition Foodexpo, originally scheduled to take place next weekend (March 7-9), has been postponed until May 16-18, due to coronavirus concerns, it was announced Friday.
It will take place at the Metropolitan Expo Center next to Athens International Airport.

Athens International Airport is posting record figures ahead of the invitation for the submission of binding offers for 30 percent of its shares.

AIA - whose official title is Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos - registered a historic record of 25.57 million passengers in 2019 - 1.4 million passengers or 6 percent more than in 2018.

Athens International Airport recorded a 4.3 percent year-on-year increase in traffic in October, when it was used by 2.3 million passengers.

The number traveling on international flights came to 1.63 million, an increase of 7.2 percent on October 2018. However, domestic traffic continued its downward course for a fourth consecutive month.

Athens International Airport (AIA) is undergoing a "small expansion" that will help it deal with a significant rise in passenger traffic over the past few years.

The project is being carried out by Aktor and constitutes a stepping stone to more ambitious expansion plans in the future.

A Bravo Airways airplane skidded off the runway of Igor Sikorsky Kiev International Airport (Zhuliany) in the Ukrainian capital late June 14. 

Athens International Airport (AIA) has been ranked the world's second best airport in 2018 by AirHelp, a company that helps passengers with compensation claims for delayed, canceled or overbooked flights.

Romania's biggest international airport in Bucharest is to ban jumbo jets for at least two months and repair both its runways, after an incident at the end of March revealed that its infrastructure may pose a risk to passenger and aircraft security.

Authorities on Sunday blamed flooding that intensified an already chaotic scene at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on an apparent frozen, unprotected water pipe.

The world's busiest airport, in the US city of Atlanta, said early Monday that power had been restored after an outage left passengers in the dark and affected hundreds of flights, AFP reports.