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Primera Air, a Danish leisure airline with flight services from Northern Europe to more than 40 destinations in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North America, declared bankruptcy on Monday, leaving hundreds of tourists stranded on the Greek islands without...

Alisher Usmanov, a Russian business oligarch with an estimated net worth of $15.1 billion is in Greece's Crete and his enormous and luxurious private airplane has landed at Chania Airport. It is the third most expensive private airplane in the world. The...

Passenger traffic at Athens International Airport grew 11.3 percent in July, totaling 2.85 million passengers, Athens-Macedonian News Agency has reported. Both domestic and international passenger traffic grew in the month, up 9.1 percent and 12.3 percent respectively (920,873 domestic passengers...

Next month will see the Greek port of Piraeus linked by rail to Athens' international airport, it was announced on Tuesday. Piraeus, which is also undergoing major expansion to handle more cargo from the Far East, will be a terminus...

Fraport Greece announced on Tuesday that it has started work on the development and upgrades of Kefalonia's "Anna Pollatou" Airport. The works that have already begun include the repair of the ATC tower; repairs on the existing main building; the...

Airlines on Saturday announced the cancellation of hundreds of flights ahead of a series of rolling strikes by the country's air traffic controllers, however the action was averted at the eleventh hour. Greek Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis had accused...

The debate on the draft law for the investment in the area of the former airport at Hellenikon started on Wednesday at the parliament plenum and ended with an evening vote in favor of the deal. All parties, with the...

The Elliniko project is the largest urban renewal project to have ever taken place in Greece. It is expected to bring forth a great change that will benefit the locals for many generations to come. Furthermore, it will directly...

Blue Air is offering free flights on its Turin-Athens route for toga-clad passengers willing to dress like Greek gods. The Romanian carrier's official Facebook page states that free flights are being offered to the first fifty travelers who appear...

At Athens’ old, disused airport, the new arrivals come not by plane but by boat, having traveled from Turkey to the Greek islands and then on to the capital. The terminal is now a refugee camp, ill-equipped to deal with...