Athens International Airport’s 2.5 Airline Marketing Workshop “25 Years Routing for You”

As every year, Athens International Airport Airline Marketing Workshop, one of the most important and meaningful gatherings of airline representatives and professionals from the air transport, travel and tourism sectors in Greece, was held with great success, welcoming more than 250 participants and carrying a special anniversary character this year, as part of the Airport’s 25-year milestone.

The central message of this landmark edition — the most significant in the Workshop’s history — was “25 Years Routing for You”, a play on the homophones “routing”, as in route development, and “rooting”, conveying a relationship with deep roots and a strong, long-standing and meaningful bond of trust, support and ongoing cooperation, built over the past 25 years between Athens International Airport and its airline partners.

A relationship that was tested in periods of uncertainty and crisis, but, at the same time, through remarkable resilience and joint effort, it grew even stronger leading to spectacular recovery, network expansion and the dynamic growth of Athens as an international destination.

From the first years of the Airport’s operation to the present day, Athens International Airport and its airline partners have been moving forward together, supporting the city’s connectivity, strengthening the country’s outward-looking profile and creating new opportunities for passengers, tourism and the economy.

As part of the Workshop, the Airline Awards honour the best-performing airlines of the previous year. This year, however, they were also an opportunity to look back on the 25-year shared journey of the Airport and its airline partners, honouring a strong relationship with real value for the entire Athens International Airport community, the city of Athens and the traveling public.

During the Workshop, the Airline Marketing & Network Development team of Athens International Airport, presented the session “The 25years Market Overview & Beyond”. In addition, this year’s event covered important topics in today aviation environment, including sessions in Geopolitis, Resilience and high performance, Cybersecurity and current trends in global aviation.

A special moment of the evening was the presentation of the “You’re an Aθenian, too” award. This year, the award honoured an organisation, MONUMENTA, a civil non-profit company dedicated to the protection of the natural and architectural heritage of Greece and Cyprus, in recognition of its meaningful contribution to safeguarding the memory, identity and cultural continuity of the city of Athens.

As every year, the evening continued with the annual Airline Awards Ceremony. Athens International Airport once again rewarded the airlines that recorded the most successful growth performance during the previous year, achieving significant growth rates and increased passenger traffic levels on their scheduled services to and from Athens:

And the...Tower goes to.... :

• The award for the fastest growth in the Domestic market was presented to SKY express. AEGEAN received a highly commended distinction.
• The award for the fastest growth in the Western European market was presented to Cyprus Airways. Eurowings and SAS received highly commended distinctions.
• The award for the fastest growth in the Eastern European market was presented to SKY express. WizzAir and Ryanair received highly commended distinctions.
• The award for the fastest growth in the Middle Eastern market was presented to AEGEAN. ARKIA and Etihad Airways received highly commended distinctions.
• The award for the fastest growth in the African market was presented to AEGEAN. Ethiopian Airlines and Egyptair received highly commended distinctions.
• The award for the fastest growth in the Asian market was presented to Juneyao Air. Air China and Scoot received highly commended distinctions.
• The award for the fastest growth in the American market was presented to Emirates.
• The award for fastest growth on a seasonal route in the European market was presented to Croatia Airlines. airBaltic received a highly commended distinction.
• The award for fastest growth on a seasonal route in the American market was presented to United Airlines. American Airlines and Air Canada received highly commended distinctions.
• The award for the Best New Entrant Performance was presented to Air Arabia
• The award for the Best of the Top 10 Airlines was presented to easyJet
• The award for the Overall Traffic Performance was presented to AEGEAN. SKY express received a highly commended distinction.

Congratulations to all the Winners on their very well-deserved Awards !

Looking forward to the next 25 years 😉