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| Status | Scheduled | ||||||||||
| Base | Athens | ||||||||||
| IATA Code | A3 | ||||||||||
| ICAO Code | AEE | ||||||||||
| Website | www.aegeanair.com | ||||||||||
| Country | Greece | ||||||||||
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24.01.2010 - Aegean Airlines (A3/Athens) has announced that it has applied for 11 public service obligation routes out of Athens and Thessaloniki. Greece will award the routes to a new carrier as of April 1 when the current contract with Olympic Airways (OP/Athens) expires. It has also announced new routes: Athens-Belgrade: daily ARJ-100 service has started on January 1 Athens-Tel Aviv Ben Gurion: daily A320-200 service has started on January 1 Heraklion-Athens-Paris CDG: daily A321-200 service starting on March 28 Aegean will however give up its Thessaloniki-Milan Malpensa route on March 26. 24.01.2010 - bmi british midland (BD/East Midlands) will remain a Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl) subsidiary for the foreseeable future. Lufthansa has put an end to all of the sale speculations by officially announcing that it has no intention to sell bmi. It has however announced a restructuring plan that will see bmi returning two of its three A330-200s and three A320-200s and two A321-200s to the lessors during 2010 as well as cutting up to 600 jobs and more routes. Business Class service has been dropped on all domestic services and flights to Dublin as of January 24. bmi has already given up its routes from London Heathrow to Aleppo, Kiev Borispol and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion on January 10. It has also transferred the London Heathrow-Brussels Ntl route to sister carrier Brussels Airlines (SN/Brussels Ntl) on the same day and will terminate its London Heathrow-Amsterdam services on March 27. It will replace the Amsterdam route with a new twice daily A320-200 service linking London Heathrow and Vienna that will be launched on March 28. bmi has signed a new codeshare agreement with Aegean Airlines (A3/Athens) covering the London Heathrow-Athens route operated by Aegean Airlines and connections via both hubs operated by the two carriers. It also has renewed and negotiated similar deals with both Air Canada (AC/Montreal Trudeau) and Continental Airlines (CO/Houston Intcl) for UK-US and UK-Canada services operated by its two North American Star Alliance partners. In addition, it is now codesharing on the two daily Malaysia Airlines (MH/Kuala Lumpur Intl) B747-400 services between London Heathrow and Kuala Lumpur Intl. 24.01.2010 - Olympic Air (OA/Athens) has successfully been able to transfer traffic rights from Olympic Airlines for its routes from Athens to Alexandria El Nohza, Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul Ataturk and Tirana and is now operating these services under its own OA code. It has however lost the traffic rights for the Athens-Belgrade and Athens-Tel Aviv Ben Gurion routes to Aegean Airlines (A3/Athens) and has been forced to give up the routes on December 31. It is temporarily also operating some domestic public service obligation routes originally assigned to Olympic Airlines under its own OA code until they are reawarded to either Olympic Air or another carrier as of April 1: Athens-Astypalaia: 4x weekly Dash 8-100 service Athens-Leros: 6x weekly ATR 42-300/Dash 8-100 service Athens-Naxos: 6x weekly ATR 42-300 service Athens-Milos: up to 3x daily Dash 8-100 service Athens-Paros: up to 2x daily Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Kastelorizo: 4x weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Karpathos: 5x weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Karpathos-Kasos-Sitia: 4x weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Kos-Leros-Astypalaia: 2x weekly Dash 8-100 service Olympic has entered into a codeshare agreement with Baboo (F7/Geneva) for the Athens-Geneva and Athens-Nice routes operated by the Swiss carrier. 11.10.2009 - Aegean Airlines (A3/Athens) has wet-leased two ATR 72-500s from Swiftair (W3/Madrid) and has announced new routes for the winter season: Athens-London Heathrow: 2x daily A321-200 service starting on October 25 (replacing Stansted service) Athens-Madrid: daily A320-200 service starting on December 1 Athens-Vienna: 5x weekly A320-200 service starting on December 10 Thessaloniki-Milan Malpensa: 3x weekly ARJ-100 service starting on October 26 20.06.2009 - Aegean Airlines (A3/Athens) will join Star Alliance within the next 12 months. It has launched three times weekly ARJ-100 service between Athens and Paphos on May 1 and has announced plans for a new daily Athens-Istanbul Ataturk service starting on September 9 with A320-200s. Aegean has however given up plans for a new Athens-Vienna route. It is considering acquiring several Dash 8 turboprops in case it is awarded some of the public service obligation routes in the latest tender by the Greek government that includes several domestic routes with low demand. |
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