Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority

Passenger traffic in the country's airports in the first 11 months of the year is up 9.6 percent on the whole of 2022, data from the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority has shown.

While 63.68 million passengers travelled through Greek airports in 2022, from January to November 2023 a record 69.8 million passengers did so.

Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza was onboard the government plane that landed at Athens International Airport on Saturday, the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said on Tuesday.

The secretary-general of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Dr Fang Liu, commended the high level of security and services in the Greek aviation sector during a visit to Greece on Monday.

Liu met with Alternate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos and the head of the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (YPA), Konstantinos Lintzerakos.

Russian newsagency Sputnik reports that Greece’s civil aviation authority rejected announcements from Ankara seeking to restrict flights over Greek islands in the Aegean Sea for 12 months so that Turkey can carry out military training.

The Federation of Civil Aviation Authority Unions (OSYPA), which does not include air-traffic controllers, on Friday called a 48-hour strike for May 31 and June 1, a walkout that could cause disruption for those travelling over the Whit Monday long weekend.

The Air Traffic Safety Electronic Engineers Association on Tuesday called a three-hour “warning work stoppage” for Thursday, April 30, to protest staff and equipment shortages. The stoppage is to take place between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on April 30.

Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos on Wednesdya invited his Cypriot and Israeli counterparts, Ioannis Kasoulides and Avigdor Lieberman, for talks on closer cooperation on energy and other issues in a bid to forge a similar pact to the one signed in Cairo over the weekend by Greek, Cypriot and Egyptian heads of state.