Aegean Airlines

Daily Hürriyet sets out to investigate why refugees, many of them children, keep drowning in the waters of the Aegean on their way to Greece. The answer: They drown because they are 'pushed back,' because they create a 'bloody economy' and because we do not help them enough in an organized way. Aylan's wake-up call

Turkish security forces have detained 435 migrants and Syrian refugees along with three suspected people smugglers, before they embarked on an attempt to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece, reports said Aug. 22.

Polish Airlines (LOT) and Turkish Airlines (THY) inked a letter of understanding to initiate enhanced cooperation on Aug. 13, Turkish Airlines has said in a statement.

Aegean Airlines offer special benefits for family travelers:

* All infants up to 2 years old travel for free within Greece for bookings until September 30 for flights until January 30, 2016.

Capital controls and a yearning for ever nearing summer holidays in the Aegean are apparently now exporting “urban legends” from Greece, with the latest starting along the lines of “… Did ya hear the one about the Greek F-16 pilot who landed in Turkey to withdraw money…?”

Turkish Airlines, Europe?s fourth-largest carrier, has announced it carried some 28.5 million passengers in the first six months of the year, an 8.5 percent increase over the same period of the previous year, in a written statement to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) on July 14.

In the worst hours of concern over the potential Greek default and "Grexit" last weekend, groups of prominent Turkish and Greek businessmen gathered on the Greek island of Rhodes to brainstorm ways to further boost their annual $5.5 billion trade. 

Aegean Airlines has scheduled extra flights from London to Brussels so that Greeks living abroad can come to Greece to vote in the referendum due to take place on July 5, 2015. Specifically:

AEGEAN, a member of the Star Alliance family won the “Best Regional Airline in Europe for 2015″ award during the Skytrax World Airline Awards in Paris. At the same time, it also won second place in the “World Regional Airline” category.

For the second time in as many days, Turkish fighter jets violated Greek national air space in the central and southeastern Aegean on Wednesday, defense officials said.