Athens Airways
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| IATA code : | ZF |
| ICAO code : | ATW |
| Call sign : | ATHENS AIRWAYS |
| Founding: | 2008 |
| Operation stopped: | 2010 |
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Athens , Greece
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| Home airport : | Athens-Eleftherios Venizelos |
| Management: | Sakis Andrianopoulos ( CEO ) |
| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | national |
| Athens Airways ceased operations in 2010. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Athens Airways was a private Greek regional airline based in Athens and based at Athens-Eleftherios Venizelos Airport .
history
Athens Airways was founded in 2008 and began flight operations on January 31, 2009 with purely domestic connections. The company announced that it would serve the high-traffic cities and hoped in this way to dispute its competitors Olympic Airlines and Aegean Airlines customers. The first aircraft was delivered on December 16, 2008. On January 16, 2009, the company received its official flight license and carried out its first flight on January 31, 2009 to Alexandroupoli. Shortly afterwards, on February 18, the second aircraft was delivered. It was announced that investments in the new airline would amount to up to 15 million euros over the next three years.
Athens Airways planned to sponsor the Aigion Keravnos basketball team. She also sponsored the all-star game of the Greek basketball league, as the official carrier of the players, officials, journalists and organizers.
In the spring of 2010, Athens Airways lost a government-subsidized contract to operate certain flight routes as a result of several irregularities regarding the reliability of the services and the origin of the aircraft. In autumn 2010, it finally ceased operations completely.
aims
Athens Airways recently served 15 domestic Greek destinations: Alexandroupoli , Athens , Chania , Chios , Heraklion , Kastoria , Kavala , Kefalonia , Kozani , Mykonos , Mytilene , Rhodes , Santorin , Thessaloniki and Zakynthos .
fleet
Most recently, the Athens Airways fleet consisted of three aircraft:
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- 1 De Havilland DHC- 8-100
- 1 Embraer ERJ 145
See also
Web links
- Athens Airways website (Greek, English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of October 15, 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF file; 233 kB)
- ↑ a b press release of December 15, 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF file; 236 kB)
- ↑ Report from the car rental company Sixt ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Report on skyscanner.net ( memento of the original from January 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Press release of January 18, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF file; 234 kB)
- ↑ Press release from February 23, 2009 ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF file; 234 kB)
- ↑ Press release of March 9, 2009 ( Memento of the original of April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF file; 349 kB)
- ↑ kythera-family.net - ATHENS AIRWAYS LOSE KYTHERA CONTRACT (English) May 3, 2010.
- ↑ isotimia.gr - Ανέστειλε (και τυπικά) τη λειτουργία της η Athens Airways ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Greek) November 1, 2010.
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Athens Airways ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on November 5, 2011.
