Turkish AirlinesTurkish Airlines offers now daily flights from Athens to Seoul and vice versa, via Istanbul.

General Manager of Turkish Airlines in Greece, Mr. Gulay Ozturk, outlined the second FAM trip, organized by Turkish Airlines, which involved leading travel agents from Seoul with this statement:

“It was a great pleasure for us that we have made and the second trip this year, with the participation-this time-of travel agents from Korea. This is a very important measure, which aims at strengthening the overall tourism and the emergence of new destinations, opening the Asian market. ” 

Turkish Airlines is willing to create new tourist arrivals from Korea, which is one from the 190 destinations available now on its network. 

Mr. Arnaoutakis, the district commissioner of Crete, in the speech to those Koreans, highlighted the importance of this energy and the collateral benefits: “In our efforts to increase visitors to Crete, the Asian markets are part of our strategies for the success of this quality objective in the coming years.
To us it is the responsibility to formulate as complete a manner the conditions so that our visitors, especially from distant countries to be compensated through the senses, knowledge, tastes and proposals that encapsulate the Cretan heritage thousands of years. ”

The Korean agents visited the sacred rock of Acropolis, the New Acropolis Museum, the Panathenaic stadium and browse  streets of Plaka. Then visited the island of Crete and especially Agios Nikolaos and Elounda and were guided at the palace of Knossos.

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Olympic Air KLM  code shareAn agreement signed between the two airlines and being in force from 01 September, entitles the airlines to market flights between Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos for connecting traffic under each others flight numbers.

The new code share agreement enables Olympic Air to increase the number of daily flight offerings to its customers from nine to sixteen per week and KLM to raise also the offering to its customers from two to three daily flights.

From September 12th, this code share agreement has been further enhanced, offering 8 destinations to KLM passengers in the Greek domestic market & 8 European destinations to Olympic Air passengers.

Passengers of KLM will be able to book also flights to Alexandroupolis, Santorini, Chania, Heraklion, Ioannina, Kos, Rhodes and Thessaloniki, for connecting services operated by Olympic Air.

Olympic Air passengers will be able to connect at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport for flights to Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Goteborg, Hamburg, Manchester, Oslo & Stockholm under an Olympic Air flight number.

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International Association of Travel AgentsAccording to a statement of IATA international passenger traffic grew by7.3%, while domestic by 3.5%.

The load factor rose in July by 0.5% to83.1% compared to last year in July, the North America at 86.9% while Europe increased to 84.1% with an increase of 9.3% in demand and 8.9%in capacity. Largest increases were recorded in Latin America with10.3%followed by the Middle East by 9.7%.

In a statement,General Director/CEO of IATA, Mr. Tony Tyler said that this increase is likely due to the good economic outlook earlier this year,unfortunately,do not expect these results at the end of the year because of international economic environment and the fuel increase

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