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Low-cost Turkish carrier Pegasus plans to distribute 100,000 free tickets to mark the 10th anniversary of its establishment, with the first 100,000 people who buy a domestic or foreign-bound ticket as of Dec. 3 benefiting from the campaign, according to company representatives. 

The tickets can be used until March 31, 2016, they added. 

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will include two new routes in its schedule from Athens to Dublin and Berlin next year.

According to Ryanair’s sales and marketing manager for Greece, John Alborante, the route to Dublin will start in March 2016 with three flights per week, whereas the route to Berlin will be covered with one daily flight.

Indian airline IndiGo has confirmed an order for 250 A320neo planes, Airbus announced on Aug. 17, the aviation giant's largest ever contract by number.

The order is worth some $26.5 billion (24 billion euros) at catalogue prices, and brings to 530 the number of A320 and A320neo medium-haul planes owned by the low-cost operator.

The airport of the Bulgarian capital recorded a 8.3 % increase in the number of passengers in July compared to the same month in 2014.

A total of 393 312 passengers were serviced in July, with 67 % of them going through Terminal 2, while the remaining 33 % passed through Terminal 1, which services the low-cost airlines.

Low-cost carrier Ryanair launches flights to Sofia as of May 2016.

The first route to be serviced by the company will be Sofia Airport - London Stansted Airport, according to an announcement published on the airline's website.

Tickets will go on sale in September.

Ryanair currently only operates flights from Plovdiv Airport.

German airline Lufthansa said on July 30 it saw no let-up in the pressure on fares in Europe, mainly as budget carriers like Ryanair move in on its home market.,

Low-cost airline carrier easyJet launches Sofia- London Stansted flights in December.

The company, which currently operates flights to London Gatwick, has included in its winter schedule two flights a week to London Stansted, one on Tuesday and one on Saturday, with the first one scheduled to take place on December 12, 2015, according to reports of dnevnik.bg.

Athens International Airport is extending an incentive scheme aimed at encouraging airlines to use the country?s main terminal during the winter into the summer, in an effort to achieve sustainable growth.

Turkey's low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines has announced that it has changed the base currency for pricing of international tickets originating in Turkey, from the euro to the U.S. dollar. 

The decision will be effective as of July 1, the company said in a written statement on June 12. 

Ryanair, one of Europe’s leading airlines announced its March statistics:

92% of more than 39,000 arrived on time.

Less than one complaint out of 2,000 passengers

Less than one complaint over luggage out of 2,000 passengers

More than 99% of complaints were answered within 7 days.