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A UK government program to help travelers stranded in Greece and other countries after the collapse of travel firm Thomas Cook get back home is under way, British Ambassador to Greece Kate Smith said on Twitter on Tuesday.

Passenger traffic at Greece's airports rose 4.7 percent year-on-year in the first seven months of 2019, figures compiled by the Civil Aviation Authority show.
The total number of arrivals and departures during this period was 35.52 million, up from 33.92 million in the first seven months of 2018.

Passenger traffic rose 5.3 percent year-on-year at Greek airports in the first half of 2019, Civil Aviation Authority data showed on Wednesday, reaching 25.53 million passengers from 24.24 million in January-June 2018.

Passenger traffic registered by Greek airports soared over the first five months of the year, according to Civil Aviation Authority figures.

From January to May 2019 the total number of passengers who used Greece's airports amounted to 17,061,502, up 5.6 percent or 904,230 passengers, compared to the same period last year.

Passenger traffic at the country's airports rose by 8.4 percent year-on-year over the first four months of 2019, reaching 10.71 million, against 9.88 million in the January-April 2018 period, Civil Aviation Authority figures showed on Monday.

An airplane landing on the International Airport of Chisinau, Moldova, 27 September 2016. Photo: EPA/Doru Dumitru

Greek airports handled 6.8 million passengers in the first three months of the year, a rise by 9 percent compared to the same period in 2018 which saw 6.2 million passengers traveling through the country's airports, according to data by the country's Civil Aviation Authority.

A four-member family - mother, father and two children - died after the small plane they traveled from Ohrid to Sofia crashed in Macedonia.

Passenger traffic in Greek airports grew 10.7 pct in the first two months of 2019, totaling 4,237,786 passengers, from 3,828,882 in the corresponding period last year, the Civil Aviation Authority said in a report released on Thursday.

No Greek airline has Boeing 737 Max aircraft models in its fleet, the country's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said in a press release on Wednesday.