Aegean Airlines

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Aegean Airlines

IATA A3	ICAO AEE	Callsign Aegean
Founded		1987
Hubs		Athens International Airport
Focus cities / secondary hubs		Makedonia Airport, Thessaloniki
Frequent flyer program		Miles & Bonus, Miles & More
Member lounge		Aegean Club Lounge, Makedonia, Demokritos
Fleet size		22
Destinations		23
Parent company		Aegean Airlines S.A.
Headquarters		Athens, Greece
Key people		Theodore Vasilakis (Chairman, CEO)
Website: http://www.aegeanair.com

Aegean Airlines is an airline based in Athens, Greece. It operates scheduled services from Athens and Thessaloniki to other major Greek destinations and to a number of European destinations. 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 the its A3 code, also have the Lufthansa LH code.

[edit] Destinations

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

Domestic

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

European

Athens to:

African

Athens to:
- Cairo (Cairo International Airport) [starts December 1, 2006]

Aegean Airlines Boeing 737-300 in Düsseldorf (Germany)

[edit] Fleet

The Aegean Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (at September 2006):

Aegean Airlines average fleet age was 11.3 years old in June 2006.

The airline recently announced it placed an order for 8 Airbus A320 of a total value of 420 million dollars, 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, now has 11 on order with 9 options to purchase.

[edit] External links

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