Greek Aegean Air Q1 passenger traffic grows 10 pct
ATHENS, April 8 (Reuters) – Greek carrier Aegean Airlines (AGNr.AT: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday first-quarter passenger traffic grew 10 percent, helped by a network expansion and a fleet renewal programme.
Aegean, which competes with state owned Olympic Airlines [OLY.UL], flies domestic and international routes. The airline carried a total of 1,062,202 passengers in the first three months of the year on 11,601 flights.
Passengers per flight rose 4 percent on average to 92 from 88 in 2007.
Domestic traffic increased 1 percent to 705,483 passengers, with international traffic up 35 percent to 356,719 passengers.
Last year, Aegean launched new direct flights from Athens to Frankfurt and Munich, code-shared with Lufthansa, and increased its frequencies to Milan, Sofia and Bucharest.
In May this year Aegean will start flights to London and launch a service linking Athens with Tirana, Albania’s capital. (Reporting by George Georgiopoulos;;