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Aegean and Emirates are adding the Athens-New York (Newark) route to their codesharing flights, over a year since they launched their collaboration in August 2022.

Aegean offers its passengers the opportunity to benefit from the increased connectivity of the Emirates network to international destinations via Dubai, by offering flights between the emirate and Athens.

Türkiye's flag carrier plans to expand its international connectivity by launching flights to Detroit, Osaka and Australia, Ahmet Bolat, Turkish Airlines (THY) chairman of the board and executive committee, has said.

This is promising to be a year of record performance for Aegean Airlines, with the first half of 2023 expected to be profitable for the first time in the history of the carrier, Greece's biggest.

In the first quarter of 2023, Aegean improved its aircraft load factor to over 83%.

The battle is already on for fall travelers, with airlines launching offers to lure more passengers to their seats.

With fall 2023 just a couple of months away, discounts for bookings in the September-December period are multiplying.

Turkish Cargo climbed on the list of top global air freighters to claim the third spot in May, the company has announced, citing monthly data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

In May last year, Turkish Cargo, the air cargo unit of Turkish Airlines, ranked fifth in the list.

Turkish Airlines carried a total of 38.7 million passengers in the first half of 2023, up from 30.9 percent a year earlier.

International passengers rose more than 27 percent in January-June from the same period of 2022 to 24.5 million.

The domestic passenger tally increased by 22 percent to 14.2 million, the flag carrier said in a filing with Borsa Istanbul.

Turkish Airlines has been awarded the title of the "Most Sustainable Flag Carrier Airline" by World Finance, the flag carrier has announced.

This is the second consecutive year that the flag carrier received this award.

For the 12th consecutive year and 13th in total, Aegean Airlines has topped passenger preferences to earn the title of "Best Regional Airline in Europe" at the Skytrax World Airline Awards 2023, announced this year at a special event in the context of the impressive Paris Air Show.

Turkish Airlines has been named Europe's best airline for an eighth time by Skytrax, the international air transport rating organization.

The flag carrier also bagged awards in the best Airline in Southern Europe, best Business Class catering, best Economy class catering and best economy class seat in Europe categories.

Infrastructures, human resources and expanding the tourist season are the necessary preconditions for a sustainable development of tourism and of air transport in Greece, Dimitris Gerogiannis, CEO of Aegean Airlines, said on Monday.

He said infrastructures were extremely important for the sustainable development of tourism, of cities and of the country in general.