Athens International Airport’s Summer 2007 Timetable (25.03.07-27.10.07) presents an 11% growth on a year-to-year basis. Analytically, in the Summer 2007 Timetable, 66 airlines will be operating 1,045 weekly scheduled flights, connecting AIA to 82 international destinations (88 airports) in 50 countries.

In the domestic sector, scheduled services out of Athens also present a 6% increase on a year-to-year, with 903 weekly frequencies.

New “arrivals”:

• Athens International Airport welcomes 10 new airlines operating scheduled services during Summer 2007:
  Carpatair, Continental Airlines, Ilyich-Avia, KrasAir, US Airways, as well as the low cost carriers Aer Lingus, Air Baltic, and KDavia. In addition, Finnair and Saudi Arabian Airlines are reintroducing scheduled flights out of Athens.

•  Moreover, Athens International Airport‘s network is expanded with 9 new destinations:
  Philadelphia / USA (US Airways), Riga / Latvia (Air Baltic), Lviv and Marioupolis / Ukraine (Donbassaero and Ilyich-Avia, respectively), Kaliningrad / Russia (KDavia), Timisoara / Romania (Carpatair), Jeddah and Riad / Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabian Airlines), and Gothenburg / Sweden (Sterling),

• and 3 new airports:
  Newark /New York (Continental Airlines), Paris Orly (easyJet), and Moscow’s Domodedovo (KrasAir).

and additional frequencies to destinations already served at Athens International Airport:

• Moreover, during the 2007 Summer Period, the following airlines have added new destinations to their scheduled services: Aegean Airlines to Bucharest and Cairo, and Donbassaero to Odessa, as well as low cost carriers easyJet to Paris, Germanwings to Stuttgart, and SkyEurope to Vienna and Prague.

• Olympic Airlines increased their frequencies to the USA and Canada, as well as to all their Balkan destinations. Aegean Airlines increased their frequencies to Sofia, and will be flying directly to Frankfurt and Munich (previously via Thessaloniki). Also, Aegean Airlines, Air France, and Lufthansa added one daily frequency compared to the previous summer period, to Milan, Paris, and Frankfurt, respectively. Moreover, 15 other airlines also increased their frequencies to/from Athens International Airport.

The even stronger presence of low cost carriers at Athens International Airport highlights the 2007 Summer Period, with a 23.1% increase compared to last year. The low cost market presents the strongest development at Athens International Airport during the last 5 years, with an average annual passenger growth of 30%. With only one low cost carrier at Athens International Airport in 2002, Athens will now be connected during Summer 2007 to 27 European destinations, by 15 low cost airlines.

The top destinations served out of Athens International Airport during the 2007 Summer Period:

In the Summer 2007 Timetable, AIA’s top international routes are Larnaca with 89 and Paris with 70 scheduled weekly frequencies, followed by London, Rome, Frankfurt, and Munich, with 67, 64, 49, and 46 weekly flights each. The top domestic routes are Thessaloniki with 143 and Heraklion with 91 weekly frequencies, followed by Rhodes, Santorini, and Mykonos, with 70, 65, and 60 weekly frequencies, respectively.