Human activities

A man was arrested on Friday for smoking in the lavatory of a Ryanair flight from Karlsruhe in Germany to Thessaloniki.
The man, 32 year-old German national of Greek origin was arrested at Makedonia airport once the plane landed at 1 a.m. on Friday.

Croatia has lost 500,000 workers over the last ten years - from 2008 to 2018. This is what Davorko Vidović claims, counselor for Labour Policy and Employment at CCE.

Greece's largest carrier Aegean Airlines flew 15 million passengers last year, a record for the 20-year old airline, and boosted its load factor, it said on Friday.
Aegean, a member of the Star Alliance airline group, said overall passenger traffic grew 7 percent in 2019 with its load factor increasing to 84.8 percent from 83.9 percent a year earlier.

A plane by Israeli airline El Al, flying from the United States to Israel, made an emergency landing at an airport in Canada due to smoke in the engine, passengers were not injured, RIA Novosti reported.

According to the airline, the plane landed at the airport in the Canadian city of Halifax.

Iranian investigators said on Jan. 9 the crew members of the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed the previous day never made a radio call for help and were trying to turn back to the airport when the plane went down.

Iran's civil aviation authority made the comments in a preliminary crash report a day after the crash of the Ukrainian jetliner that killed all 176 people on board.

A top Ukrainian security official on Jan. 9 set out what he said were the four main theories for why a Ukrainian airliner crashed in Iran the previous day killing 176 people, including a possible missile strike and terrorism.

The government's decision to introduce measures that will prevent small groups of protesters from causing traffic jams and disrupting public transport in downtown Athens is a step in the right direction as far as improving life in the Greek capital is concerned.

Residents of a suburb in Iraklio on the island of Crete woke up on Friday to the robbery of hay balls that decorated a Christmas manger that was set up by the local cultural center.

The local Cretalive.gr website said the theft took place on Thursday night.

According to reports, the robbers took the hay to feed their livestock.

Turkish airline firm Atlas Global has restarted its flights following an almost one month break.

"We are up in the air again," the company announced on its official Twitter account on Dec. 21.

The Greek labor market has recorded increases in the number of enterprises and salary workers this year, but also a reduction in the average salary, while a considerable portion of workers continue to earn very low wages, according to the statistics of the Ergani database.