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Americans walk 378 klm from Sparta to Thermopylae.

Reporting: Marianna Kakaounaki/ Camera: Enri Canaj/ Video editing: Myrto Lekatsa

Additional footage: Palmer Douglas Durr

Turkey's national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, signed a new cooperation agreement with Lebanon's Middle East Airlines (MEA) on May 4.        

During a ceremony at the Rafiq Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Turkish Ambassador to Lebanon Çağatay Erciyes said the deal would encourage more visitors from Turkey.        

Alitalia's administrators will start taking bids for the troubled Italian airline within the next 15 days, the government said on May 3.

The French and German flag carriers have urged the European Commission to counter what they say are unfair practices by Gulf airlines, seeking to influence the drafting of a new EU law.

The chief executive of Air France-KLM, Alexandre de Juniac, is stepping down to run the airline industry's main trade group, the International Air Transport Association, it was announced on April 5.

Airbus and Boeing announced billion-dollar deals at Asia's largest airshow in Singapore on Feb. 17, underscoring the region's role as a driver of industry growth despite greater caution among plane buyers.

Europe's Airbus said it had won a $1.85 billion deal for the purchase of six A350-900s by Philippine Airlines (PAL), the flag carrier of one of Asia's fastest-growing economies.

Franco-Dutch airline group Air France-KLM said Jan. 11 that the November 13 terror attacks in Paris reduced its December turnover by an estimated 70 million euros ($76.42 million).

But the effect had largely tailed off over the past two weeks, it added.

Franco-Dutch airline group Air France-KLM said Jan. 11 that the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris reduced its December turnover by an estimated 70 million euros ($76.42 million).

Delta Airlines, United Airlines and American Airlines will operate a connection from Athens to New York during the summer of 2016. Alternate Tourism Minister Eleni Kountoura announced that these new flights are to take place, while also revealing that she had proposed that Aegean Airlines link Greece to North America so that a reliable Greek airline reactivates the line.

A KLM passenger plane swayed side to side as its pilot struggled to land it at Manchestor airport just as Storm Desmond hit. Strong guts of winds bounced it up and down as its wheels hit the runway, blowing it back into the air.