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Alitalia General Manager for Greece and Cyprus Francesco Scandale.
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Alitalia Launches Thessaloniki-Rome Daily Flight

Alitalia last month launched a new direct daily flight from Thessaloniki to Rome. With the addition of the new Thessaloniki-Rome flight, the Italian national carrier now offers daily direct and fast access from Thessaloniki to Rome and Milan.
Posted On 01 Nov 2004
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Representatives in Athens of the new nine-member SkyTeam global alliance: Claude Maire, Air France; Francesco Scandale, Alitalia; Boris Kopecny, CSA Czech Airlines; Panagis Vassilatos, KLM and Northwest; Zoe Skreki, Continental and behind her Thanasis Cavdas, Korean Air; Dimitris Karagioules, Delta; and Dinos Frantzeskakis, Aeromexico.
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SkyTeam Alliance Welcomes New Members

Airline alliance SkyTeam solidified its position last month as one of the world's fastest growing airline alliances with the acceptance of Continental Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Northwest Airlines as full members. The alliance's governing board also announced that...
Posted On 01 Oct 2004
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Francesco Scandale, Alitalia's new general manager for Greece and Cyprus, who replaces Alessandro Amadeo who is now the regional manager for southern Italy, with Alitalia’s sales manager for Greece, Nikos Bolias.
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Alitalia Reaches Life-saving Agreements with Unions

After Alitalia managed to reach an agreement late last month with its nine unions, its existence is no longer in question. The unions approved layoffs of one-sixth of the airline's workforce and the breakup of the carrier into two units: a separate company for ground handling and...
Posted On 01 Oct 2004
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Greece Airways' chairman, Dhia Al Ani; the airline's managing director, Manos Ladopoulos; Athens Airport's marketing and PR manager, George Karamanos; and the airport's CEO, Alfred van der Meer.
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Greece Airways Welcomed to Athens International

Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos last month welcomed Greece Airways to the Athens airport community. The new airline, a subsidiary of Air Scotland but with Greek participation, recently launched two weekly scheduled services (every Monday & Friday) that...
Posted On 01 Aug 2004
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Leonidas Raftopoulos, airline marketing supervisor for Athens International Airport, and the general manager of Wizz Air, Jozsef Varadi, during the airline's Athens presentation.
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Fast-growing New Low-cost Airline from Eastern Europe

Wizz Air, a new European low-cost airline that focuses on the Central and Eastern Europe markets, inaugurated Athens-Budapest flights last month. The CEO and general manager of Wizz Air, Jozsef Varadi, said he expects to fill 2,000 seats per week out of Athens and 100,000 seats...
Posted On 01 Aug 2004
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Athens International Airport's
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Athens International Airport Europe’s Best and Safest

Athens International Airport's "Eleftherios Venizelos" was recently voted the best and safest airport of its kind in Europe and the second best in the world, according to an independent survey carried out by the Global Airport Monitor of the International Air Transportation...
Posted On 01 Jul 2004
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Roland Weil, regional director of sales for Delta Air Lines, during the dinner held for corporate accounts. The addition of three new SkyTeam members later this year will place the alliance on the top of the list concerning total scheduled air traffic.
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SkyTeam Hosts Corporate Accounts in Athens and Travel Agents in Thessaloniki

SkyTeam airline representatives here in Greece arranged two workshops last month - one for major corporate accounts within the Athens area and one for up-market travel agents in Thessaloniki. During both events, representatives of the member airlines explained the many advantages...
Posted On 01 Jul 2004
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Dimitris Marantos and Dinos Frantzeskakis, of the Association of Airline Company Representatives.
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Airline Representatives Demand Second Athens Airport

The Association of Airline Company Representa-tives last month called on government to change present legislation so as to allow a second international airport to be created in the Athens area because, according to the association’s president, Dinos Frantzeskakis, the Athens...
Posted On 01 Jul 2004
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EU Agrees to Share Air Passenger Information with USA

The European Union (EU) will sign a long-debated air passenger data transfer agreement with the United States despite opposition from the European Parliament (EP), said Jonathan Todd, a spokesman from the European Commission (EC), late last month.
Posted On 01 Jun 2004
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Olympic Airlines Saga Ends This Month

Sometime this month, says the government, we will see the completion of the competition called by the previous government for the privatization of Olympic Airlines. Until then, there will be no changes in the airline's management, said Mihalis Liapis, Greece's transportation and...
Posted On 01 May 2004
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Travel Association Wins Commision Case

The Greek Union of Air Travel Agencies (PETAGA) succeeded in winning a court case recently whereby travel agents are entitled to a minimum 7 percent commission on airline tickets sold.
Posted On 01 Apr 2004
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Air Sea Lines SA is ready to provide seaplane scheduled,
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Seaplane Service for Greece As of May

Air Sea Lines SA, incorporated in Athens late last year, announced last month that it is ready to provide seaplane scheduled, "for hire" and charter passenger services connecting multiple island and coastal harbors within Greece.
Posted On 01 Apr 2004
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Travel Agents last month joined with the CSA Czech Airlines’ team here in Athens to celebrate the 1st anniversary in the carrier’s new offices.
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CSA and Korean Air Sign Code-share Agreement

Korean Air, a SkyTeam alliance member, begins flying between Prague and Seoul, South Korea, as of May 22 with Czech Airlines as its code-share partner. The Czech flag carrier will offer its passengers flights to Seoul and will also be the general agent for cargo.
Posted On 01 Mar 2004
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The new combination will become the largest airline in Europe in terms of revenue and rank third behind American Airlines and United Airlines in passenger traffic.
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Air France-KLM Merger Approved

Competition commissons in both the European Union and America last month approved the proposed merger between Air France and Holland's KLM airlines. With this approval of the carrier's de facto takeover by Air France, KLM's life as an independent airline comes to an end.
Posted On 01 Mar 2004
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Olympic Airlines Takes Over Olympic Airways’ Traffic

Greece's national carrier, Olympic Airways, was officially transformed on December 12 into a slimmer, debt-free carrier under the name Olympic Airlines. After 28 years of public ownership, government now hopes to sell at least 51% of the "new" carrier to private investors....
Posted On 01 Jan 2004
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The SkyTeam workshop proved to be one of the most popular local travel events of 2003.
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SkyTeam Workshop Entices Top Travel Agencies

More than a hundred of Greece's top travel agents arrived last month at the rooftop restaurant and bar area of the Hilton Athens to take part in a workshop organized by SkyTeam airline representatives here in Greece -- Aeromexico, Air France, Alitalia, CSA Czech Airlines, Delta...
Posted On 01 Jan 2004
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Delta's commercial director for Greece and Cyprus, Dimitris Karagioules.
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Delta Adds New Athens-New York Flight

From June 3 until September 30 of this year, Delta adds a second direct flight from Athens to New York, says the U.S. airline's commercial director for Greece and Cyprus, Dimitris Karagioules. The new flight will leave Athens every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Posted On 01 Jan 2004
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Aegean Continues Non-stop Expansion

Aegean Airlines, the independent Greek airline and ERA award winner, is to launch non-stop flights from Athens to Milan-Linate, Athens to Munich and from Kavala to Munich for the winter season. Athens to Frankfurt frlights are now daily and several other of the carriers routes...
Posted On 01 Jan 2004
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Alessandro Amadeo, Alitalia's general manager for Greece and Cyprus.
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Alitalia Inaugurates Flights from Thessaloniki to Milan

At a time when most airlines are concentrating on cutting costs and routes, Alitalia took a brave step forward and opened a new route from Thessaloniki to Milan recently with two daily flights. The first flight leaves Thessaloniki at 6:20 and the second at 13:30. Alessandro...
Posted On 01 Dec 2003
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Tassos Mais, commercial director for Hellas Jet; Constandinos Loizides, president of Cyprus Airways; and Georgos Politakis and Stavros Agathithelou, representatives of the investing banks Omega and Alpha.
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Hellas Jet Officially in the Air

Greece's newest airline, Hellas Jet, held its first meet last month to officially inaugurate its airline and flights from Athens to Brussels, London, Zurich and Paris as it finally received all necessary licenses. Company officials said the carrier would claim a leading role in...
Posted On 01 Nov 2003
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