January 27, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Greek police was set on alert on Friday morning after new threatening e-mails were sent again to Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” as well as several hospitals and one church in the Greek capital. The e-mails warned of the existence of explosive devices, i.e. “mines” at the airport and the …
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January 12, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
An employee of the ground staff at Athens International Airport has confessed to stealing valuables from passengers’ luggage on at least 70 occasions. He was actively stealing since 2016. The 41-year-old man was arrested after police tracked him down by following the GPS signal from a pair of wireless headphones …
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December 16, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
French multinational rolling stock manufacturer operating in rail transport group Alstom is turning its attention to Heraklion, Crete. It brings back discussions about the construction of a fixed track network, which will connect the city of Heraklion with the new airport in Kasteli. According to news website hellasjournal, Managing Director …
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December 15, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
An aircraft crashed into the sea area off Kakos Mountain near the airport of Heraklio on the island of Crete on Thursday morning. Two people onboard. The aircraft sent MayDay before crashing into the sea. The single-engine aircraft with two people onboard crashed into the sea around 10 o; clock, …
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November 11, 2022
Society, Very Mix
No “suspicious” passenger was found on the Emirates plane that was forced to return to Athens International Airport accompanied by F-16 fighter jets following a security alert on a “suspicious terrorist passenger” by a US intelligence agency. Short after Thursday midnight and two hours after Flight EK209 landed in Athens, …
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October 26, 2022
Tourism
Athens metro will cancel some of its schedules between Piraeus and the Athens International Airport on Wednesday and Thursday due to the visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, following the order of the Hellenic Police. All stops between Piraeus (‘Dimotiko Theatro’ stop) and the Athens International Airport will be affected …
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September 27, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Trains on the Athens metro Line 3 (blue line) going to the Athens International Airport will be delayed by 6 minutes over the next few days starting on Tuesday, due to tests for the new line extension toward Piraeus. Thus, trains running directly from Nikea to the Airport will run …
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August 15, 2022
Society, Very Mix
The airport of Chania was closed on Monday afternoon after a US Air Force fighter jet reported a technical problem that would hindering it form landing. Arrivals and departures were temporarily halted, while also vehicle traffic to and from the airport was stopped. According to local news website flashnews.gr, it …
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July 19, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
The airport of the remote island of Kastellorizo in south-eastern Aegean Sea has been closed since early Saturday evening due to illness of the sole employee at the control tower. this is not an isolated incident as in several other regional airports of there is only one employee for the …
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July 6, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A British tourist suffered brain injuries when the turbine blast from an airplane knocked her to the ground. The plane was taking off from the airport of Skiathos. The incident occurred less than a month when the blast of another airplane blew an elderly man into the sea, and triggered …
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June 20, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 79-year-old man was blown into the sea by the turbine blast of an airplane landing at the airport of the island of Skiathos. The accident where the man, a pedestrian who was walking outside the airport fence, was blown into the sea occurred Sunday noon. “Alexandros Papadiamantis” airport on …
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October 29, 2021
FEATURED, Politics, Refugees
Unprecedented violence at the airport of Zakynthos: police drags migrants from the feet, beats them and pulls them by the hair. Among the group of some 85 Cuban migrants are pregnant women and children who scream in fear. A video shot by one of the migrants is being posted on …
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September 26, 2021
Very Mix
The Athens International Airport was set on alert on Sunday morning when an airbus A333 of the Delta Airlines reported a problem with the brakes short before landing. With 248 passengers plus crew on board the plane was flying the route Atlanta, USA- Athens. Short before its scheduled landing in …
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October 21, 2020
Very Mix, weather
Torrential rainfalls on the island of Crete turned roads into rivers, flooded homes and businesses and forced the temporary shut down of the airport of Heraklio on Wednesday. Dozens of motorists were trapped in rushing waters as rivers and streams overflowed. Flooded passenger area and airport of Heraklio. State broadcast …
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October 6, 2020
Economy
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic were also reflected in air travel in September, with passenger traffic at Athens International Airport (AIA) down 68 pct from the same period last year. According to AIA statistics, passenger traffic reached 861,000 passengers, compared to 2.7 million passengers last year. Passengers on both …
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August 6, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Tourism
After the Athens International Airport also the airport in Thessaloniki offers travellers a Covid-19 test. Arriving or departing travellers will be able to do a molecular test to determine whether they have been infected by the coronavirus as of August 21, the airport operator said on Tuesday. The airport has …
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July 7, 2020
Tourism
Ukrainian tourists have been stuck at the international airport of Athens and are not allowed to enter the country due to a pandemic ban for non-EU citizens. The group consists of 17 people, among them several children. In an angry post on social media, Greek-Ukrainian journalist Kostas Onisenko blamed both …
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June 24, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Pepper robots will inform arriving passengers at the Athens international airport Elfetherios Venizelos about coronavirus protection measures at the airports and during flights. The application has been reportedly developed by the Mobile Technology company In a statement with the message “Your health is our priority”, Greece’s largest airport said that …
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June 6, 2020
Tourism
Fixed taxi fares to and from the airports of Athens, Thessaloniki and Kavala to the corresponding city centers are now reduced, in line with broader cuts in public transport fares introduced on June 1, the Transport Ministry announced on Friday. In Attica, taxi rides from or to the Athens International …
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November 8, 2019
Very Mix
An airplane of Egypt Air was forced to an emergency landing in Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” short before 10 o’ clock on Friday morning. The airplane sent a danger signal while it was flying in FIR Athens and over the island of Chios in the Eastern Aegean Sea. Reason …
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