Pope Francis concluded His 35th Apostolic Journey in Cyprus and Greece on Monday morning December 6 and following a farewell ceremony in Athens International Airport embarked on AEGEAN dedicate flight to Rome with an A321neo. AEGEAN was honored and blessed to have been the preferred air carrier for His Holiness historic three day journey from […]
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Ryanair today (3rd Dec) announced two additional routes to Greece’s S’22 schedule – Corfu-Kyiv (operating once weekly) and Corfu-Zagreb (operating twice weekly) from Jun ‘22. The opening of these new routes reinforces the airline’s commitment to Greece and the rebuilding of the country’s tourism industry, playing a key role in the recovery of local jobs […]
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Airport trade body ACI EUROPE has today given its strongest support to the World Health Organisation’s call for a calm and measured response to the Omicron variant, and urged governments to react accordingly. Specifically, in its updated COVID-19 Travel Advice released yesterday, the WHO states: • Countries should continue to apply an evidence-informed and risk-based […]
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A new report from ForwardKeys, which has the freshest and most comprehensive air ticketing data available, reveals which destinations were the most visited since 1st November by travellers from the eight southern African countries currently designated as most at risk due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 – namely Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, […]
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Airports Council International (ACI) World has today published the second edition of the ASQ Global Traveller Survey which confirms that travellers remain highly positive with regards to their willingness to travel by air. The 2021 findings were launched during the second day of the ACI LAC/World Annual General Assembly, Conference, and Exhibition, in Cancun Mexico. […]
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced the results of its 2021 Global Passenger Survey (GPS), which delivered two main conclusions: 1. Passengers want to use biometric identification if it expedites travel processes. 2. Passengers want to spend less time queuing. “Passengers have spoken and want technology to work harder, so they spend less time ‘being processed’ […]
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Germany’s most popular leisure airline is coming back to Vienna: in the summer of 2022, Condor will be flyingfrom the Austrian capital to Majorca and to the most sought-after three Greek islands of Crete, Rhodes and Kos several times a week. With the introduction of the flights from Vienna, Condor is responding to the high […]
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Clear commitment to Dusseldorf from Germany’s most popular leisure airline: with the start of the current winter timetable, Condor will be flying its guests on vacation from Dusseldorf to 13 destinations with over 40 weekly departures. New to the flight schedule are three weekly long-haul flights to the Caribbean to Punta Cana (Dominican Republic). On […]
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On the eve of ACI EUROPE’s 31st Annual Congress and General Assembly, the airport association has set the scene with the release of its latest traffic data, revised forecasts, and the publication of the Airport Industry Connectivity Report 2021. Europe’s airports have lost 1.26 billion passengers so far this year1 – a decrease of -62% […]
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Brussels Airlines offers a vast leisure network for next summer, as it sees demand returning. Due to the uncertainty the coronavirus crisis brought along, booking behaviour had changed and passengers booked their flight tickets very shortly before departure. Since a few weeks, this trend of last-minute bookings is slowly coming to an end, showcasing the […]
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