Deal expected to be finalised Thursday * Agreement to be settled at meeting with govt officials (Adds background, quotes) ATHENS, March 3 (Reuters) – Greece’s biggest buyout company Marfin Investent Group (MIG) (MRFr.AT) expects to close a deal to acquire the troubled Olympic Airlines from the Greek government this week, a senior MIG official said […]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A 24-hour strike by Greek civil servants disrupted services across the country Wednesday, forcing public hospitals to accept only emergency cases and airlines to cancel at least 68 flights. Hundreds of striking workers marched through central Athens chanting “Hands off our pensions!” Doctors, teachers, ambulance crews and tax office workers were […]
DUBAI, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Qatar Airways has not bid for Greece’s state-owned Olympic Airlines, an executive said on Sunday, adding the Gulf Arab firm was also seeing some trouble obtaining financing for plane purchases in current conditions. “We have never been interested in taking any other airline or any other ventures,” Ali al-Rais told […]
Examiner A Staten Island couple who flew into JFK from Athens on November 30 panicked when their little 18-pound terrier, Leo, was nowhere to be found in the baggage claim area. Though they had been allowed to fly with Leo in the cabin on the way to Athens, Olympic Airlines insisted the dog be transported […]
Greece’s government has named 16 bidders for its sale of Olympic Airlines, and says it has another 22 potential bidder companies that want to remain anonymous. Companies interested in the airline operations are Athens Airways, Chrysler Aviation, Fouad El Ghanim Group, MyAir, Qatar Airways, Sky Europe and Sky One. For ground handling are Athens Airways, […]
Athens – Riot police fired tear gas at protesting youths in Athens Tuesday as the demonstrators hurled rocks in support of a nationwide strike that paralysed air, sea, rail and public services across Greece. The strike was called by Greece’s two largest unions, private sector federation GSEE and public sector union ADEDY, representing more than […]
Athens, 17 October – A mishap for the president of Greece, Karolos Papoulias: he is stuck together with his staff in Vietnam, where he had been making an official visit lasting four days, as his official Airbus has broken down. This was reported by the national flagship airline, Olympic Airlines, which provides the presidential aeroplanes. […]