The management of Athens international airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” has installed an automatic system with tilting bars in the arrivals area, charging one euro per minute.. The aim is to charge the drivers of the cars waiting to pick up arriving passengers on domestic or international flights. According to newspaper citing …
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Employee at Athens Airport stole valuables from passengers’ luggage
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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Turkey changes its international name to “Türkiye”
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that his country be referred to as “Türkiye,” the state-run news agency reported. The move is seen as part of a push by Ankara to rebrand the country and dissociate its name from the bird, …
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Greece lifts Covid-restrictions on international and domestic flights
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority CAA announced on Sunday, 1. May 2022, that it lifts restrictions for the protection from covid-19 for all passengers on international and domestic flights. The CAA said in its press release that all extraordinary health measures to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 have been lifted as …
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Greece extends international travel Covid-directive until beginning of April
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority has extended the current air directive (notam) for international travelers citing reasons of limiting the spread of the coronavirus. According to the new directive issued on Sunday, the current measures will be extended until Monday, April 4, 2022. The extension provides, among others, measures such the …
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Greece reduces COVID-illness Certificates validity to 3 months for international, domestic flights
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) issued air directives (notam) for international and domestic flights regarding the validity period of Certificates of Covid-19 illness. According to the current legislation on the COVID-illness Certificates validity in effect from December 13, the illness-certificates validity period is reduced to 3 months from 6 as …
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Greece extends Covid-19 requirements for international flight passengers
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority announced a new extension of the air directive (notam) with measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 for international flight passengers. The notam contains the conditions of entry into the Greek territory for flight passengers coming from abroad. The air-directive is extended until Friday, October 8, …
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Greece extends Covid-requirements for international flight passengers
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority CAA announced a new extension of measures for international flight passengers with the aim to contain the spread of Covid-19. CAA extends the air directive (notam) regarding the conditions of entry into Greek territory until 06:00 a.m. on Friday, October 1, 2021. The notam for flights …
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Greece’s Civil Aviation extends Covid-restrictions for international flight passengers
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority expended the air directive (notam) regarding Covid-requirements for international flight passengers. The new extension of the conditions of entry into the Greek territory aim to contain the spread of Covid-19. The Covid-requirements are extended until Friday, September 24, 2021, at 06:00 in the morning. In particular, …
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Greece’s Civil Aviation extends Covid-directive for international passengers
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Friday announced the further extension of the current aviation directive for containing the spread of Covid-19 until 6:00 on Friday, September 17, 2021. The notam outlines the conditions for entry into Greek territory on foreign flights in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19. …
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Greece adds 5 non-EU countries, extends Covid-regulations for international passengers
Greece ‘s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Friday added five countries to the list of non-EU countries whose citizens are exempted from entry restrictions to Greece. CAA’s current entry-ban air directive (notam) was also extended to Thursday July 8, 2021. Permanent residents of the European Union and the Schengen area …
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Greece accepts Rapid Test for international passengers, adds non-EU countries
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) extended the air travel restriction but at the same time announced that travelers can enter the country also with a Rapid test carried out 48 hours before arrival. In a statement issued late on Sunday, the CAA said it extends the air directives (notams) for …
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Greece changes prerequisites for flight passengers, extends non-EU countries list
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced a new aviation directive (notam) for international flight passengers. The new notam expands the list of non-EU countries whose citizens can travel to Greece and allows all nationals to enter with either vaccination or illness certificate or a negative molecular PCR test. The Civil …
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Greece extends domestic & international flight restrictions, lifts some bans
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority has extended travel restrictions for domestic and international flights, while it lifted some flight bans and modified others. According to a CAA press release issued on Sunday, 21. March 2021, only essential domestic flights are allowed for health, commercial, business and family reasons and return to …
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Greece extends travel restrictions on international and domestic flights
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has extended restrictions on domestic and international flights until March 16, 2021 and March 22, 2021 respectively According to a CAA announcement issued on Sunday, March 7, the restrictions aim to limit the spread of Covid-19. Domestic Flights Travel restrictions are extended, only essential flights …
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Greek Ancestry Conference on Jan 29-31, Live Streaming, free attendance
An International Greek Ancestry Conference is to take place virtually on January 29-31, 2021. The conference will be live-streamed, while attendance is free of charge. Ancestry is the first digital platform created to meet the specific research needs of people of Greek descent and those interested in Greek archival records. …
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Greece’s Civil Aviation extends travel restrictions for domestic, international flights
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority extended travel restrictions for domestic and international flights until December 7 and December 14, 2020 respectively. In a statement issued on Monday, Nov 30, the CAA said the the extensions aim for the protection of passengers from Covid-19. Domestic flights The air notification (notam) is extended …
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Greece issues new instructions for flight passengers during lockdown
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued instructions for passengers and airlines for domestic and international flights during the period the country is in lockdown. The new airline instructions (notam), for domestic and international flights, which will be valid until Monday, November 30, 2020 and aim to protect passengers and …
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Greece to halt all international passengers flights to/from Greece
The Greek government is very seriously considering to halt all passengers flights from and to Greece as of Sunday afternoon, March 22, 2020, media report on Thursday. The ban will be imposed to all Greek airports. It is an additional measure to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country …
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“Makedonia”: Mitsotakis finds solution for Macedonian products (POLL)
Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, top priority is among others to protect the brand name of Macedonian products. At stake is to make it easy for international consumers to understand which products come from Greek Macedonia and which ones from the North Macedonia. In order to differentiate the products sold on …
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