October 9, 2024
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Τhe board of the Union of Shipowners and Cruise Ships held a meeting with Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, Christos Stylianidis on Wednesday. Top on the agenda was the recent implementation of an increased passenger fee as well as the crisis in the Middle East. Greece’s Tourism Ministry …
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September 25, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Dozens of passengers of Athens urban train ISAP panicked on Wednesday afternoon when the wagons were filled with smoke. The train stopped, passengers opened the doors with their own hands,got off jumping out of the wagons and started walking on the tracks and next to them to the nearest station. …
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September 3, 2024
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
The Athens International Airport (AIA) launches a new service, the off-airport check-in service for cruise passengers as of upcoming Saturday, September7, 2024. The service aims to enhance and simplify the travel experience for cruise passengers arriving or departing by flight from Athens, This new service links AIA with the Piraeus …
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July 1, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A fire in a wagon of the suburban train Proastiakos caused panic among passengers, with firefighters rushing to the scene to avoid the worst. According to local media, the fire broke out while the train was moving in Akrata, a town in Achaia, western Pelopponese on Monday morning. Passengers and …
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June 5, 2024
Economy
Athens International Airport recorded an increase of 18.5% in passengers traffic in in May 2024 compared to the same month last year. Traffic in the Athens International Airport reached 3.01 million passengers in May 2024, up 18.5% compared to May 2023. Both domestic and international passenger traffic exceeded last year’s …
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February 26, 2024
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Ninety passengers on board of Kalavryta rack railway – Odontotos in Greek- were trapped on Monday after two landslides blocked the rail track due to bad weather affecting the area. Nobody was injured and all passengers were in good health, media reported. According to police and local media, buses were …
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November 23, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
In the first ten months of 2023, Greece’s 14 regional airports served 32.3 million passengers, up 8.4% compared to 2022 and 12% up compared to 2019, managing company Fraport said on Tuesday. The data was presented by George Vilos, Fraport Greece’s Executive Director for Commercial & Business Development, at a …
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October 26, 2023
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Τhere was some chaos at the international airport of Athens “Eleftherios Venizelos” at noon on Thursday, when the passport control machines stopped working. Passengers formed very long queues and tension at times was high. Affected were passport control machines at the arrivals and for travelers reportedly from non-Schengen countries. According …
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August 22, 2023
Economy
Passenger traffic at Greece’s airports went up by 7.6% in July compared to the same month in 2022 and 14.2% up compared to July 2019, according to data released by the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA) on Monday. Some 11,342,154 passengers went through the country’s airports in 2023, compared to …
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August 17, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Thousands of vehicles have been trapped in the Athens-Corinth highway and dozens of passengers are stuck in the Proastikos train for over 7 hours due to a fire in a tank truck earlier on Thursday. Απίστευτη ταλαιπωρία καταγγέλλουν οι οδηγοί που παραμένουν εγκλωβισμένοι στην #Εθνική Οδό Αθηνών – Κορίνθου, κατόπιν …
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June 29, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A train with 400 passengers got stuck in a tunnel in Fthiotida, Central Greece on Thursday, the managing company Hellenic Train. Unions of workers at the trains denounce that the safety problems remain, still four months after the tragedy at Tempi when two trains collided killing 57 people, injuring dozens. …
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June 23, 2023
Society, Very Mix
600 train passengers on Athens-Thessaloniki route were stranded in northern Greece on Friday due to a technical problem. According to passengers, the delay reached 1.5 hours although representatives of Hellenic Train spoke of a delay of 50 minutes. The reason for another day of inconvenience for the passengers of the …
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June 14, 2023
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
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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February 28, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Hundreds of passengers on Athens-Thessaloniki remain stranded at the Palaiofarsalo station, central Greece, in one more incident of the apparently troubled Hellenic Train company. According to λοψαλ media, some 450 passengers remain for over an hour inside the train after electric cables fell on the train. According to preliminary information, …
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January 17, 2023
CORONAVIRUS
Air passengers from China will need a negative Covid-19 test, a PCR or a rapid test, Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority announced in a air directive (notam) issued late on Monday. The measure refers to all passengers on direct flights from China to Greece regardless of their nationality. All travelers from …
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December 20, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Rail operator Hellenic Train SA was fined 300,000 euros by Greece’s Railroad Regulatory Authority (RAS) for stranding 820 passengers in harsh weather conditions on January 24, when five trains were stuck on the major north-south train route of Greece. Following a months-long review of Hellenic Train, a subsidiary of Ferrovie …
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July 29, 2022
Tourism, Travel
Passengers of Greece’s fastest train, the “White Arrow”, were stranded in the fields just 22 km away from Athens. An alleged A blackout in parts of the Greek railway network forced hundreds of passengers to spend several hours without air-condition and without any information about what had happened and when …
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May 17, 2022
Economy
Passenger traffic at Greece’s airports soared 383% to reach 8.1 million in the period January-April 2022, compared with the same period in 2021 when only 1.7 million were recorded due to Covid restrictions, the Civil Aviation Authority said on Monday. The CAA added on its statement that scheduled flights at …
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May 1, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
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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March 20, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
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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