Do the mATH for Rolling Year ‘23-‘24 at Athens International Airport = 18+19 New Additional Services, 5+8 New Airlines and 18+5 New Destinations, extension of services, additional frequencies, dense routes and more…
During the last 12 months:
A spectacular year last year (2023) with the addition of 18 New Destinations, 18 New Additional Services and 5 New Airlines, compared to 2022, with the Network Developments continuing at Athens International Airport this year as well.
Based on the Summer schedules available so far, in Sumer 2024 Athens will be connected to 166 airport Destinations with services offered by 66 airlines on Scheduled PAX services. This is not including Charter operations and the phenomenal big number of General/Business operations.
In specific Athens will add another 5 New Destinations, starting with Juneyao Airlines to Shanghai/China on the 2nd of April, followed by Volotea to Brest/France on the 20th of April, Volotea to Ancona/Italy on the 01st of June, with Aegean operating to Sarajevo/Bosnia & Herzegovina the same day and Air Arabia connecting Athens to Sharjah/UAE on the 28th of June.
The new additions in Summer 2024 will further enhance Athens connectivity (ranked 9th TOP in Europe by OAG in 2023) and fuel PAX traffic in new highs across all elements on traffic, O&D, Indirect, Foreigners arrivals, Greeks traveling Internationaly and connections via Athens. Back in 2023, Athens achieved its best ever performance, in PAX traffic, with 28.17mio passengers setting 2023 as a new RECORD year for the airport.
In addition to the New Destinations, Athens will welcome an impressive additional number of 8 New Airlines, including Air Arabia, Asiana (operating a number of flights from Seoul), GeoSky a new airline in Georgia, Juneyao Airlines, LOT, Norse Atlantic, SmartWings and Universal Air, with the latter adding services to Malta.
New Destinations and New Airlines are not the only developments at Athens, as Athens existing network is further enhanced with 19 New Additional services on existing routes, including the dynamic development by easyJet with a total of 6 New services in S’24
New Additional Services.:
easyJet to Malaga, supplementing Aegean services on the route
easyJet to Bordeaux, supplementing Aegean & Volotea services on the route
easyJet to Lyon, supplementing Aegean, Transavia France and Volotea services on the route
easyJet to Nice, supplementing Aegean and Air France services on the route
easyJet to Palma de Mallorca, supplementing Aegean services on the route
easyJet to Venice, supplementing Aegean and Volotea services on the route
Aegean to Palermo, supplementing Sky Express and Volotea services on the route
Aegean to Vilnius, supplementing Ryanair services on the route
Ryanair to Milan MXP, supplementing Aegean, easyJet, Sky Express and WizzAir on the route
Ryanair to Bari, supplementing Volotea services on the route
Volotea to Naples, supplementing Aegean and easyJet services on the route
Volotea to Split, supplementing Aegean and Croatian Airlines services on the route
Asiana to Seoul, Asiana will be the sole operator, continuing a series of flights from Korean Air that operated similar program in S’23
GeoSky to Tbilisi, a brand new airline from Tbilisi/Georgie a market with strong VFR element, supplementing the very success Aegean services on the route
LOT to Warsaw, returning to Athens with a full daily year-round service, last operated the route in 2021 only seasonal. Supplementing Aegean and Sky Express services on the route
Norse Atlantic to New York (JFK), a brand new airline for Athens, operating to the very successful US market for the Airport. Supplementing, American and Delta Airlines services on the route. It is noted, that New York is also served at EWR with services from Emirates and United Airlines
SmartWings to Prague, upgrading from Charter operations in the past to regular Scheduled services, supplementing Aegean and Eurowings services on the route
United Airlines to Chicago, supplementing American Airlines services on the route. This addition, is a further prove to the success and strength of the US market, as Chicago was first connected to Athens in 2019
Universal Air to Malta, supplementing Aegean and Ryanair services on the route
Other key developments .:
Delta Airlines will increase Boston services to daily from 4/7 in 2023
American Airlines will extent the season to New York JFK, Chicago and Philadelphia
United Airlines will extent the season to New York EWR and Washington
Aegean is adding a 4th daily service to London LHR
Scoot will extent its Berlin 5th freedom service to year-round
Air China will increase services to Beijing to 5 weekly and upgrade aircraft type to the brand new A350. The increase in frequencies from Air China and the new 3/7 services by Juneyao Air means that, Athens will be connected 8 times weekly to China this Summer, compared to 3/7 last Summer
Athens network is characterised not only by the number of non-stop destinations but also by dense routes operated in high number of frequencies . For example, in peak Summer Athens is connected to Santorini 23 times daily !! with services offered by 4 airlines, while the US market will deliver almost 12 daily departures to the US alone. Larnaca and Milan MXP, will be served by a total of 5 airlines each.
All above fascinating network developments, will offer an enhanced choice to the traveling public to/from and via Athens in Summer 2024 and beyond…