Aegean Airlines

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Aegean Airlines

IATA A3	ICAO AEE	Callsign Aegean
Founded		1987
Hubs		Athens International Airport
Focus cities		Makedonia Airport, Thessaloniki
Frequent flyer program		Miles & Bonus, Miles & More
Member lounge		Aegean Club Lounge, Makedonia, Demokritos
Fleet size		23
Destinations		26
Parent company		Aegean Airlines S.A.
Headquarters		Athens, Greece
Key people		Theodore Vasilakis (Chairman, CEO)
Website: http://www.aegeanair.com

Aegean Airlines is the second largest Greek airline based in Athens. It operates scheduled services from Athens and Thessaloniki to other major Greek destinations as well as to a number of European destinations, mainly German. Its main bases are Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport, Athens, with a hub at Makedonia Airport, Thessaloniki (SKG).

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 External links

[edit] History

Aegean Airlines was founded as Aegean Aviation in 1987. It was originally a VIP/business air operation specializing in executive and air ambulance services. On 17 February 1992, it became the first airline to be issued with a Greek independent air operator's licence. After it was bought by Vasilakis Group in 1994, Aegean Aviation commenced VIP flights from Athens all over the world with wholly owned Learjet aircraft. The Aegean Airlines title was adopted with the start of scheduled passenger services at the end of May 1999. Its first commercial flights were from Athens to Heraklion, Crete and Thessaloniki, Macedonia, with 2 brand new wholly owned BAe 146/RJ100. During 2000 Aegean bought Air-Greece. After an agreement in March 2001 to merge Aegean and Cronus Airlines, it operated for a while as Aegean Cronus Airlines until full integration. Since 2005, the airline is in partenrship with Lufthansa, offering participation to the Miles & More program. Its flights, except from its A3 code, also have the Lufthansa LH code.

[edit] Destinations

Aegean Airlines' destinations (as of December 2006) are :

Domestic

Athens to:
- Alexandroupolis
- Chania
- Chios
- Corfu (Kerkyra)
- Heraklion
- Ioannina
- Kavala
- Kos
- Mykonos
- Mytilene
- Rhodes
- Samos
- Santorini (Thira)
- Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki to:
- Athens
- Heraklion
- Mytilene
- Rhodes

European

Athens to:

Thessaloniki to:

Heraklion to:
- Bologna (Guglielmo Marconi Airport, summer 2007 timetable)
- Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf International Airport, summer 2007 timetable)
- Milan (Malpensa Airport, summer 2007 timetable)
- Munich (Munich International Airport, summer 2007 timetable)
- Stuttgart (Stuttgart Airport, summer 2007 timetable)
- Verona (Valerio Catullo Villafranca International Airport, summer 2007 timetable)

African

Athens to:
- Cairo (Cairo International Airport)

Codeshare flights

Air One
- From Athens via Rome to:
  - Bari (Bari "Karol Wojtyla" International Airport)
  - Catania (Catania-Fontanarossa Airport)
  - Genoa (Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport)
  - Lamezia Terme (Lamezia Terme International Airport)
  - Palermo (Palermo International Airport
  - Turin (Torino Caselle Airport)
  - Venice (Sant'Angelo Treviso airport)
  - Trieste (Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport)
Lufthansa
- From Thessaloniki via Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich or Stuttgart to:
  - Paris
  - Amsterdam (Schiphol Airport)
  - Berlin (Tegel)
  - Hamburg
  - Hannover
  - Brussels
TAP Portugal
- From Athens via Rome to:
  - Lisbon
- From Thessaloniki via Frankfurt to:
  - Lisbon

Aegean Airlines Boeing 737-300 in Düsseldorf (Germany)

[edit] Fleet

The Aegean Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of March 2007):

In 2005 the airline announced it placed an order for 8 Airbus A320 of a total value of 420 million USD, with an option of an extra 12 aircraft of the A320 family (A318/A319/A320/A321), which will gradually replace the existing Boeing 737-300/400. In July 2006 Aegean converted three A320 options into orders, a total of 14 aircraft on order (including 3 leased aircraft from ILFC) with 9 options to purchase. Aegean Airlines recently announced an order for another 5 planes, increasing the total order to 19 planes and a further 10 on option.

The first Airbus A320 was delivered on 22/02/2007. Two more A320 were delivered in March 2007, 8 A320 and 2 A321 will be delivered in 2008 and 6 in 2009/2010. The total value of investment exceeds 800 million USD.