Since Emirates launched the Greece-US non-stop service, 160,000 passengers traveled on the route, contributing to the 60% growth of the New York market out of Athens.
Delta Air Lines, which marks its 25th anniversary of service to Greece this year, will restart its nonstop service from Athens to New York-JFK, effective April 5.
Delta's Athens–New York nonstop flights will begin five times weekly from March 27, 2016, increasing to a daily service from May 24, 2016, using an Airbus A330-300 aircraft with 292 seats.
Delta Air Lines will boost travel options for customers between Greece and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport from Monday, March 30, by restarting services to the Big Apple from Athens International Airport.
Delta Air Lines is increasing its flights from New York John F. Kennedy International Airport to Athens International Airport for the 2015 summer season.
"The creation of the new airline SkyGreece was a reaction by us Greeks living abroad," the carrier's founder and chairman, Father Nicholas Alexandris, said on 4 February in Athens.
Qatar Airways will launch daily direct flights between Athens and New York next year, the airline’s chief executive officer, Akbar Al Baker, announced yesterday, Wednesday, 28 November, at a media briefing in Athens.
