Athens International Airport

By Stathis Kousounis

Greece enjoyed the fifth-biggest increase in Google searches from the UK market this year in the category of emerging holiday destinations, according to a chart published by the world’s biggest online search engine.

Italy was top, followed by Iceland and Portugal.

By Alexandra Kassimi

For the first time in five years November traffic at Athens International Aiorpoirt exceeded 1 million passengers.

Figures released on Wednesday by AIA showed that 1.04 million pasengers used the country’s main air terminal last month, up 27.4 percent from November 2013.

Aegean Airlines reported a strong set of nine-month 2014 results on Thursday, driven by successful network expansion and Olympic Air synergies.

Consolidated revenues increased by 10 percent to 736 million euros, pre-tax earnings improved to 105.4 million euros from 75.9 million a year earlier while net earnings rose 31 percent to 78.6 million euros from 60 million in 2013.

Spanish low-cost carrier Volotea announced it will be using Athens International Airport as a hub as of spring, when it will start operating scheduled flights from the Greek capital to four destinations in Italy and even a domestic service.

By Alexandra Kassimi

Athens International Airport is expecting traffic to keep increasing this winter, as schedules include 21 percent more flights than the same season last year.

Every week there will be 110 more international flights as well as 85 extra domestic services, while another 18 existing services will become more frequent.

Athens International Airport (AIA) reported on Monday a 28 percent rise in passenger traffic last month, compared with October 2013, reaching 1.43 million.

By Stathis Kousounis

An additional 760,000 tourists arrived by air in Greece in the first half of the year compared with January-June 2013, exceeding 5.2 million, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises (SETE).

By Stathis Kousounis

The tourism year appears to have got off on the right foot with a healthy increase in arrivals from abroad at the airports of Athens and Thessaloniki leading to a considerable growth in total arrivals in the first month of 2014.