Athens International Airport

Greece's leading carrier, Aegean Airlines, is expected to resume flights on the Athens-Tel Aviv route on Thursday. [Xinhua]

A draft law marking the completion of the necessary institutional prerequisites so that Athens International Airport (AIA) shares can be traded on the Athens Stock Exchange was tabled in Parliament on Friday.

The last party of the year will be the biggest and will take place at the Athens Central Food Market (Varvakeio). The party starts at 11 p.m. and will last until the early hours of 2024, so you can either ring in the New Year there or watch the countdown and fireworks at Syntagma Square and show up fashionably late.

An 18-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman were killed on Thursday morning when their cars smashed into each other on the road linking Spata to Artemida, east of Athens.

A 30-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday afternoon at the Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport for drug trafficking. 

According to the police, an investigation in cooperation with the DEA office of the US embassy located the woman after she landed in Greece on a flight from Switzerland.

A total of 37 kilograms of cannabis was located in the woman's luggage. 

The exit to Athens International Airport on the Attiki Odos ring road will be closed to traffic from 10 p.m. on Tuesday night until 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning, the highway's operator has said.

Exit 7 from Dimokratias Avenue in Acharnes towards the airport will be closed as maintenance is carried out on that stretch of the road, the company said.

Athens ranks among the world's 20 cities that are most accessible and most attractive to remote workers, according to research by the global human resources platform WorkMotion.

Greek travelers are turning to European destinations off the usual list but more affordable, as shown by the air booking data for the upcoming national holiday on October 28.

Aegean Airlines has increased its number of available seats by between 18% and 20% on the international and domestic networks.

There are no reports of Greek nationals missing or injured in Morocco after the devastating earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that struck the country on Friday night, according to Foreign Ministry sources.

Aegean and Emirates are adding the Athens-New York (Newark) route to their codesharing flights, over a year since they launched their collaboration in August 2022.

Aegean offers its passengers the opportunity to benefit from the increased connectivity of the Emirates network to international destinations via Dubai, by offering flights between the emirate and Athens.