Aegean Airlines

Athens Thessaloniki

Aegean Airlines is a Greek airline based in Athens and based on the Airport Athens Eleftherios Venizelos. She is a member of the airline alliance Star Alliance and has been listed on the Athens Stock Exchange in Athex Composite Share Price Index.

  • 2.1 Code Sharing

History

Founding and first years

The airline was founded in 1987 under the name Aegean Aviation. Initially, only flights were conducted with small business aircraft. 1994, the Group bought Vassilakis on the airline and built it through the purchase of Learjet further.

In March 1999, the present-day Aegean Airlines was founded, the Avro RJ100 with two carried out the first passenger flights in May of the same year. In the same year joined forces with Air Greece. Also Cronus Airlines was acquired in 2001.

Since November 2005, Aegean Airlines is a partner of Lufthansa.

In 2007, a total of 5,226,163 passengers were transported, of which 3,355,962 1,870,201 within Greece and on international flights. The main shareholders were loud Annual Report 2007 Theodore Vassilakis (20.1%), Athanasios Laskaridis (11.4%), Panagiotis Laskaridis (7.6%), Cantel Participations ( 6.2%), Trans Marine ( 6.9%), Autohellas (6.9%) and Leonidas Ioannou ( 6.1%). CEO is Theodore Vassilakis, General Director Dimitris Gerogiannis.

Aegean Airlines has been awarded several times by the European Regional Airlines Association: With the "Gold Award 2004/5 and 2008/ 9", the "Silver Award 2005/6 and 2006/ 7" and the " Bronze Award 2000 /1".

Development since 2010

Effective June 30, 2010 Aegean Airlines joined the Star Alliance airline alliance.

Yet in February 2010, plans for a merger between Aegean Airlines also with the Greek Olympic Air under the brand name Olympic Air from the European Commission had been prohibited due to an expected monopoly. A new attempt in October 2012 while retaining both brands had but also thanks to the increased competition in the meantime, for example, Cyprus Airways, as well as the concentration of the two companies in different markets - Aegean serves mainly international routes, Olympic almost exclusively Greek domestic - greater opportunities. In October 2013, the European Commission allowed the merger was ultimately. On October 23, 2013 Olympic Air was therefore taken for a total of 72 million euros by Aegean Airlines from Marfin Investment Group and will henceforth operate as a subsidiary of Aegean.

2011 and 2012, Aegean has been awarded by Skytrax as the best regional airline in Europe, with Aegean Airlines in 2011 also the second best regional airline in 2012 and the third best regional airline was worldwide.

Destinations

Aegean Airlines operated from bases in Athens and Thessaloniki connections within Greece and flies beyond to numerous European cities such as London, Madrid, Paris, Rome and Vienna. In Germany, Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Berlin are served. As of end of May 2013 was followed by Nuremberg and Hanover. 2014 served as the new destination Hamburg from Athens and Heraklion.

Code Sharing

Aegean has codeshare agreement with Brussels Airlines, United Airlines, Lufthansa and TAP Portugal.

Fleet

As of September 2013, the fleet of 31 aircraft consists of Aegean Airlines with an average age of 5.1 years:

  • 01 Airbus A319 -100
  • 25 Airbus A320 -200
  • 04 Airbus A321 -200
  • 01 Boeing 757-200 ( leased from Air Baltic )

Olympic Air

  • 4 Dash 8Q -100
  • 10 Dash 8Q -400
  • 03 Airbus A320 -200
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