Civil Aviation Authority

Civil Aviation Authority figures showed a 9.7 percent increase in passenger traffic at Greek airports in January compared to the same month last year.

The total number of passengers that used all of the country's airports came to 2,162,670 last month, against 1,981,908 in January 2018, which points to an increase of 190,762 passengers.

Passenger traffic through Greek airports increased 9.9 percent in the first 10 months of the year compared to the same period of 2017, according to figures released by the Civil Aviation Authority.

In fact, the total number of passengers to Greece in the year to end-October was greater than the figure for the whole of 2017.

More than 44 million passengers used Greek airports in the January-to-August 2018 period, up 9.9 percent from the same period in 2017, while there was also an 8.7 percent increase in the number of flights, Civil Aviation Authority figures have shown.

Two years after legislation designed to restructure Greece's civil aviation system was approved in Parliament, presidential decrees have been issued splitting the Civil Aviation Authority (YPA) into two separate bodies - an independent agency (APA) that will oversee all of the country's 44 airports, both private and state-run, and a civil aviation service that will only manage the state-owned o

Greece is enjoying a very successful year in terms of tourist arrivals, based on official figures released by the Civil Aviation Authority, Fraport and the Athens International Airport for the January-July 2018 period.

Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said on Feb. 4 it was beginning a review into airlines’ seating policies, including whether some operators were deliberating splitting up groups of passengers travelling together.

Fraport, which in April signed a 1.23 billion euro deal to operate 14 regional airports in Greece, could seek compensation from the Greek state for damage to buildings and infrastructure that allegedly occurred during the takeover.

Kathimerini understands that the company has submitted an itemized list of the damages to the Civil Aviation Authority.

Ryanair has been threatened with legal action for "persistently misleading" passengers about their rights following thousands of flight cancellations, BBC writes. 

The Civil Aviation Authority said it had launched "enforcement action" against Ryanair, the first step towards court action.

Greek airports enjoyed a 9.3 percent annual increase in passenger numbers and a 0.9 percent rise in flights in the first eight months of the year, according to Civil Aviation Authority figures issued on Thsurday.

A number of major airlines are asking the state to intervene and prevent non-necessary infrastructure works from going ahead at Thessaloniki's Makedonia Airport, as that would entail having to slash traffic considerably.