Tag Archives: airport

A 19-year-old Greek model was arrested at the Hong Kong international airport carrying 2.6kg cocaine worth HK$2.4million ($300,000, €310,00). She faces life sentence. The local community on the island of Lesvos is shocked as the young woman is the daughter of a respected policeman. The woman arrived to Hong Kong …

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Greece’s Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis criticized the German-Greek consortium Fraport Hellas that has leased 14 regional airports since the beginning of the year. “Fraport does not operate the airports better than the Civil Aviation, we have problems even with the cleanness in the toilets,” Spirtzis said in an …

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Transportation to and from the island of Kos is at 90 percent through the airport, Athens News Agency reported on Friday after the earthquake 6.6R caused serious damage at the port of the island. Smaller boats transfer passengers from and to Kos via the islands of Kalymnos and Nissyros, which …

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Trains, Proastiakos and metro to the Athens airport will operate as usual on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 30-31 2017, but there will be a 24-hour strike on Thursday, June 1st. Trains workers have reportedly cancelled their work stoppages originally planned for the last two days of May. Last week, the …

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Greece will conclude a 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) airport deal with a Fraport-led consortium later this month, signalling the country’s biggest privatisation venture so far under its international bailouts. Privatisations have been a key pillar of Greece’s three international rescue programmes since 2010 but have reaped only 4 billion …

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The Greek government expands the airport levy of 12 euros for flights departing from Greece to all airports including the regional airports. The levy will start to be imposed after the operation date of the 14 regional airport and until November 1st 2024. After this date, the levy will be …

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With order of Greek police no metro will operate from and to Athens Airport Eleftherios Venizelos from 10:20 a.m. until 11:20 a.m. At the same time, five metro stations will close to public as of 12 o’ clock noon and will open again by police order. The metro stations that …

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Hospitalized in serious condition is the head of the unit of the National Intelligence Service (EYP) at Athens airport Eleftherios Venizelos after an incident that looks like an accident. According to some preliminary press information, the policeman pulled out his gun in order to sit down and shot himself in …

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This morning in Brussels is the sheer horror: An explosion occurred inside the airport of the Belgian capital at 8:00 a.m, a second followed after fifteen minutes. An hour later, an explosion shakes the metro station of Maalbeek near the EU building and near the Greek EU delegation. Brussels: People …

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The dignitaries who arrived at the airport early in the morning to wave Goodbye were almost as much as the passengers. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, European Parliament President Martin Schulz, EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos, Foreign Minister of Luxembourg Jean Asselborn, Greek Minister for Migration Yannis Mousalas. If one …

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This is the airport of the beautiful island of Corfu: hundreds of empty water and beverage bottles are laying nicely on the floor or are carefully arranged around garbage boxes by passengers ready to take off.  The pictures of shame have been uploaded on internet by Giorgos Tseremis, the president …

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It was short after 5 p.m. in the afternoon Tuesday when the aircraft carrying the Syrian Foreign Minister and a team of advisers and negotiators took off from Athens airport Eleftherios Venizelos. The green light for refueling the Syrian aircraft followed a diplomatic rally between Athens, Damaskus and Brussels, where …

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“Prince Harry from the British Royal family, a helicopter pilot with the RAF search and rescue visited the island of Kefalonia at the Ionian Sea. A short stop for refuelling at the airport of the island.” The news was submitted to KTG by our British colleagues from Zante Radio on …

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Workers at Greece’s trains and proastiakos will launch  two work stoppages from 8 p.m. until midnight on April 11th and 12th 2013. Athens Metro will operate only until <Doukissis Plakentias> station and not up/from Athens airport.  

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Personnel at Greek Trainose and Proastiakos will launch three 24-hour strikes from March 23th until March 25th 2013. The metro will not operate up/from Athens Airport. Trains and Proastiakos personnel protest wages and benefits cuts. “Wisely” enough they choose the long weekend, with Monday, March 25th, be a national holiday.

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This is another shocking evidence about Greece’ “Neo”- Homeless,  middle class people who fell victim of the economic crisis. In a thrilling report published in daily Eleftheros Typos, workers at Eleftherios Venizelos, Greece’s biggest airport. speak of dozens of people who seek shelter in the area, pretending to be airlines …

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