Metro rail services to and from Athens International Airport have been restored, according to an announcement from the Athens Urban Rail Transport Company (STASY).
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Metro services to Athens International Airport were disrupted on Friday due to a mechanical issue.
A 36-year-old driver accused of a hit-and-run accident involving a Paralympic athlete in Athens appeared before a prosecutor on Monday.
Restrictions on cars in the city center designed to reduce traffic congestion are no longer in force in Athens starting on Monday.
Aegean Airlines is preparing to start long-haul flights, with the addition of a service to Las Palmas, on Spain’s Canary Islands, from Athens to its list of new destinations from February 2025.
An aircraft carrying 223 passengers made an emergency landing on Friday at Eleftherios Venizelos Airport in Athens shortly after takeoff from London, bound for Chania, Crete.
A global tech outage was disrupting operations in multiple industries on Friday, with airlines halting flights, some broadcasters off-air and everything from banking to healthcare hit by system problems.
Aegean Airlines is preparing to start long-haul flights, as it is adding Las Palmas (on Spain’s Canary Islands) from Athens to its list of new destinations from February 2025.
The first half of the year saw an increase in passenger traffic of 11.4%, relative to the same period last year, at all of the country’s 39 commercial airports, official data have shown.
Passenger traffic increased by 11.4 percent in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period last year at all 39 of the country’s airports with commercial flights (24 under the Civil Aviation Authority and 14 managed by Fraport Greece).
Suburban railway services have been suspended close to the refineries in Corinth due to a fire near the Athens-Corinth National Road, following an order from Civil Protection.
Procedures for a new tender regarding another 700 new electric buses and trolleybuses in Athens and Thessaloniki are under way.
Aegean Airlines’ passenger traffic figures in the second quarter and the first half point to a record year.
Taxi drivers drive their vehicles as they protest in Athens, on Thursday.
Athens taxi drivers will pull off the capital’s streets on Thursday, their union, SATA said. The strike started at 6 a.m. and will end at the same time on Friday.
Seven employees from the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) are being summoned by the prosecutor as suspects for violating confidentiality rules by leaking audio recordings between a train driver and a stationmaster immediately after the railway crash at Tempe in central Greece in February 2023.
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