Greek airline plans Birmingham – Athens flights
10.05.09
A Greek airline wants to launch its first services from Britain – with direct flights from Birmingham Airport to Athens. Hellenic Imperial Airways also plans to launch flights to Jeddah, the Post reports, with the two routes combined offering midlands passengers a route to the middle east.
Hellenic is so confident of the demand for both destinations it wants to operate four flights per week to the Greek capital using a 456-seat Boeing 747 jumbo jet with a mixture of economy, premium economy, business and first class seats. Two of the weekly flights will have onward connections to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
The new service is expected to start in early June with prices from £199, plus taxes, to Athens and from £299, plus taxes, to Jeddah. The airline also plans to start new services to Casablanca in Morocco from Athens, which would offer midlands travellers an easy connection to Morocco’s largest city.
The newspaper reports that Birmingham - Athens flights will operate every Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. However, a spokeswoman for Birmingham Airport said it was in negotiations with Hellenic Imperial but no dates for the start of the service had been confirmed.
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