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Aegean Airlines - new direct European flights to Corfu in 2021
ATHENS. 33 new routes beginning in May 2021 - Corfu, Mykonos, Santorini, Heraklion and Thessaloniki - to kick off the new tourist season.
Ryanair: Waiving of flight change fee extended to January 2021
DUBLIN. Customers who book in December 2020 and January 2020 will be able to change their flights up to 7 days prior to departure for any dates up to 30 September.
Corfu remains on UK Safe List
UK. The benefit to Corfu and the other 4 safe destinations (Zakynthos, Crete, Rhodes and Kos) is mainly in terms of their tourist image as there are no direct flights now from the UK.
New regulations for air travel from Monday 9 November
ATHENS. A new NOTAM comes into force on Monday 9 November - What air travel will be allowed.
Aegean and Olympic Air flight changes due to Air Traffic Controllers strike
Cancellations and changes to Aegean and Olympic Air flights on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 October due to the participation of Air Traffic Controllers in the 24-hour ADEDY (Civil Servants΄ Confederation) strike.
Drop of over 70% in arrivals and departures at Corfu Airport for year to date
CORFU. UK and Germany remain at the top of the list.
Additional 15 Jet2.com flights to Corfu in October
UK. "The British want holidays in the sun in October," said the Jet2.com CEO when announcing the company΄s extra 70 flights to 4 destinations including Corfu.
50% decrease in August international arrivals at Corfu Airport compared to last year
CORFU. Fraport reports a 50% drop in international arrivals at Corfu Airport - reflecting the level of economic activity this year.
77% decrease in July arrivals at Corfu Airport compared to last year
CORFU. Confirmation of the situation with tourism from the Fraport statistics for July 2020.
Elias Mossialos, Professor of Health Policy at London School of Economics, explains why first tests on UK direct arrivals were all negative
ATHENS. "In the UK the pandemic is under control and the majority of people have returned to normality".
Coronavirus tests on direct UK flights to Greece all negative so far
ATHENS. 2,803 tests were conducted on direct UK flight arrivals on 15 and 16 July and all were negative - Two passengers tested positive who had come from London via Paris and Larnaca.
Greek Tourism Minister to Sky News: "Talk of a second lockdown is nonsense"
Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis gave an interview on the occasion of the reopening of Greek airports to flights from the UK, stressing once again the high standards of safety and security here.
Water salute for the first UK plane to arrive in Corfu
CORFU. The Jet2 flight from Birmingham arrived in Corfu with around 90 passengers.
From half a million last June...down to 32 international arrivals!
CORFU. There were 32 international arrivals at Corfu Airport in June - compared to 506,881 in the same month last year. There were nearly 9,000 domestic arrivals compared to 35,000.
UK now says travellers from Greece won΄t have to quarantine
ATHENS. Greece is now included in the list of countries whose travellers won΄t have to quarantine from 10 July despite what UK Minister of Transport said earlier.
The first ΄swallows΄ have come - first international arrivals. What Tourism Minister said
CORFU. The first flights arrived on time - from Frankfurt and Budapest at 09:00 and Dusseldorf at 09:50.
International flights scheduled to arrive at Corfu Airport on Wednesday 1 July
CORFU. Along with the Minister of Tourism international flights will be arriving at Corfu Airport tomorrow as restrictions are lifted.
No direct flights from UK and Sweden until 15 July
ATHENS. At a broad-based meeting chaired by Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday it was decided, amongst other things, that Greece will follow the list drawn by the EU.
