The figures for this year’s summer season are especially encouraging, as revealed during a recent meeting of 120 travel agency executives from Greece and Cyprus with the sales team Aegean Sea last week at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse. As already mentioned, the traditional markets of Germany, France and Switzerland have shown particular momentum since the beginning, while the flow of arriving passengers from the Spanish markets has also increased significantly during this period, as well as compared to 2019. Italy and England, whose strong preference for Holidays in Greece seem to be back.

The course of the summer season is estimated to be even more optimistic because in the coming days Aegean will begin to implement many new routes to and from major European destinations and back to all its bases, gradually increasing frequency. Tentatively, in the coming days, routes will start from Athens to Newcastle, Valencia and Eindhoven, from Thessaloniki to Barcelona, ​​Nuremberg, Cologne, Hannover and Venice, as well as from Heraklion to Vienna and Marseille and from Rhodes to Belgrade.

Aegean’s summer plans for this year are the largest in its history, according to travel market leaders at Airbus headquarters, where the airline’s 46-aircraft A320neo and A321neo fleet renewal program is underway. This year it will operate 76 aircraft and offer a total of 18 million seats. 11 million of them, which concern international routes, increased by 2 million compared to 2022 and 800,000 compared to 2019. In addition, Aegean will operate in 46 countries with 264 routes to 161 destinations from 8 bases, adding to its network. 16 new international destinations, 25 new direct international routes, and four new countries (Morocco, Kuwait, Latvia and Azerbaijan). At the same time, frequencies on existing routes have also increased significantly.

“We continue to see strong demand and an increase in bookings for the summer season, which, as always, will determine the course of the entire year,” said Aegean Commercial Director Roland Jagi.

“Our collaboration with the travel market and supporting the people in our company for 24 years, and during the recovery of travel after COVID, has greatly contributed to the good course of Aegean,” said Stefanos Sadopoulos, Director of Sales for Greece, Cyprus and the Balkans of the airline. .