Sigtuna Municipality

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.

Scandinavian airline SAS said yesterday it has filed for so-called Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the United States, as a part of a restructuring plan, a day after pilots walked out on strike.     

To meet growing demand and an increase by more than 40 per cent in bookings, Bulgaria Air increases its flights from Sofia to Moscow, Amsterdam, Palma de Mallorca, Madrid and Larnaka, in August and September, the air carrier said.

Bulgaria's Burgas Airport will be closed until March 27. The reason is planned construction and repair activities related to the airport runways major overhaul. 

All planned flights during the repair works will be cancelled or redirected to Varna Airport, BTA reported.

Bulgaria Air starts operating 10 new regular passenger flights to some of the most attractive cities in Europe and Asia in 2021. While other airlines report further flight cuts, the national air carrier will surprise its customers with new direct flights to Dubai, Corfu, Rhodes, Crete, Thessaloniki, Budapest, Kiev, as well as many other top destinations.

Leadership management and trade union federations of pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark managed to agree on wage increases.

This year it will be 3.5%. In 2020, wages will increase by another three per cent, and by 2021 by four per cent. According to the SAS  Executive Director, however, at least 24 hours will be required to normalize the flight schedule.

 700 flights were canceled today, bringing the total number to 3800.

The pilots are dissatisfied with the working conditions they define as unbearable, as well as their unpredictable work schedules.

The strike hit over 340,000 passengers.

A passenger plane made an emergency landing at Chania airport in western Crete on Thursday night amid reports that there might be a bomb aboard.

The Condor flight DE69 was flying from Egypt's Hurghada airport to Germany's Dusseldorf, when it diverted its course to land in Crete.

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.

After passenger plane was forced to make emergency landing at the airport in Burgas and then left the track earlier today, now the it is already pulled to a safe distance. An inspection by a technical team starts began. One of the versions of the incident is a technical malfunction, reported the Bulgarian National Television.