Ryanair

Ryanair announced on Tuesday it is cutting its seat availability from Athens by 22 percent this winter, and also criticized the government on its policy and Athens International Airport for its charges.

Low-cost airline Ryanair will perform all its flights from and to Sofia at Terminal 2, news website Dnevnik.bg reports, citing company officials.

Ryanair, which last year launched flights to more than a dozen destinations at Sofia Airport, used the older Terminal 1 for a few months.

Nearly 50 million passengers have departed and arrived at Sofia Airport in 2016.

This is a record for Bulgaria's capital Airport.

Passengers serviced were 22% year-on-year.

Total number of passengers was 4,980,387. Out of these, over 2.3 million were serviced at Terminal 1, while another 2.6 million were serviced at Terminal 2.

The works scheduled to take place at the Thessaloniki International Airport runway are expected to have a negative impact on tourist arrivals during the peak of the 2017 season, according to newspaper “Macedonia”.

Pilots at German flag carrier Lufthansa will resume their strike on Nov. 29-30, their union said, as talks over a dispute concerning wages ended without a resolution.

Pilots' union Cockpit said it was calling on members flying short-haul flights to stay away from work on Nov. 29, and those flying both short and long-haul destinations to stage a walkout on Nov. 30.

Pilots at German flagship carrier Lufthansa stayed away from work for a second straight day on Nov. 24, forcing the airline to scrap 912 flights and grounding 115,000 more passengers.

The airline had already scrapped nearly 900 flights that affected 100,000 passengers on Nov. 23 after pilots staged a walkout in a row over pay and working conditions.

British airline easyJet warned its profit would fall by over 25 percent this year as security issues dampened demand and low fuel prices meant there was more competition in the European short-haul market.

Over 88,000 Greek passengers booked air flights online via the airtickets website for the 3 months in summer. According to the website’s data, the majority of the Greeks (69%) chose domestic destinations for their holidays, with Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Rhodes, Chania and Santorini being on the top of their list of preferences.

Dutch low-cost carrier Transavia will launch flights between Sofia and Amsterdam as of May 2017, reported the carrier's website.

The flights will be carried out three times a week. Tickets are already available online and the first Sofia-Amsterdam flight is on May 10, 2017. The price of a one-way ticket is currently EUR 29.

Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz air will resume its flights between Sofia and Varna on March 26, 2017.

The company started its flight programme in the middle of July 2008 and stopped it in November 2010. Tickets can now be bought online and prices start at BGN 19.99 per basic fare.