Qatar Airways

The Greek National Tourism Organization's (GNTO) efforts to increase tourism flows from the Arab world to Greece are in full swing, with the GNTO attending the Arabian Travel Market trade show in this context.

GNTO Secretary-General Dimitris Fragakis stated that "the Arab countries are the main target of the organization's strategy in opening to new markets.

Qatar Airways, the official airline partner of Posidonia 2024, is offering a 10% discount on economy and business class tickets for flights to Athens from its global network.

The offer, valid until June 7 for travel from May 20 to June 17, is available at qatarairways.com and the mobile app using the promo code POSIDONIA24.

Qatar Airways has reported $1.2 billion in profits over the past year, buoyed by its role in ferrying fans to the soccer World Cup.

The long-haul airline increased its revenue to $21 billion, a 45 percent increase over the previous year, it said.

Its yearly passenger load reached 31.7 million, a 71 percent increase.

Turkish Airlines has been named Europe's best airline for an eighth time by Skytrax, the international air transport rating organization.

The flag carrier also bagged awards in the best Airline in Southern Europe, best Business Class catering, best Economy class catering and best economy class seat in Europe categories.

The European Commission's transport unit chief Henrik Hololei has been transferred to another post, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. The transfer comes after a row over several Qatar-paid trips Hololei took.

Yesterday at a ceremony in Tallinn, Estonia, BSMEPA received the award in the cross-border cooperation category of the International Trade Council's Go Global Awards!

The Go Global Awards recognize companies and organizations that drive the economy forward through their innovation, technology and strategic solutions.

Airbus has taken the extraordinary step of cancelling an order of 50 planes from Qatar Airways in an escalating feud over the airline's grounding of A350 aircraft.

The Qatari company, one of the Gulf region's "big three" carriers, has grounded part of its A350 fleet over degradation of exterior fuselage surfaces.

Turkey is planning to resume international flights to 40 countries in the upcoming period in June, local media reported on Thursday.
Broadcaster NTV said the first flights would be on June 10 from Istanbul to a few countries including Greece, Bulgaria, Bahrain and Qatar.

Qatar Airways claimed on Wednesday that all the passengers in a flight that landed in Athens on June 1 had tested negative to coronavirus when they boarded its plane in Doha.

Greece on Tuesday announced it was suspending flights to and from Qatar until mid-June, after 12 out of the 91 passengers in the flight QR203
were found to be infected.

Greece on Tuesday announced they were suspending flights to and from Qatar until mid-June, after 12 out of 91 passengers in a Qatar Airways flight that landed in Athens on Monday tested positive for the coronavirus.