Monday, August 13, 2012

Diagoras Airport opening - 19/8/1977

Some old and rare footage of the opening ceremony of Diagoras Airport back in 1977 as well as interior and exterior shots of the then brand new airport. Enjoy :)



*Original source of the footage is courtesy of the Hellenic National AudioVisual Archive (link), youtube format available from parapona-rodou.blogspot.com (link).

Saturday, August 4, 2012

July 2012 Traffic

Here are, finally, July stats as released some days ago. Results are still much in red but as stated previously the season is performing better than originally expected. Some things worth mentioning:
- Domestic traffic keeps going down, in our briefing room you can read about the early termination or frequency reduction on certain routes
- The German market is still on the red but losses have been reduced
- The Italian market lost almost half of its arrivals pointing out probably the bad economic situation in the country
- The Russian market has stabilized for second consecutive month to ~35.000 ranking 3rd


Arrivals Summary

2012
2011
+/- %
Domestic Arrivals
36.003
41.879
- 14%
International Arrivals
346.493
372.607
- 7%
Total
382.496
414.486
- 7.72%

International Arrivals by Country
Country
2012
2011
+/-%
England
53.905
55.124
-2.21
Germany
38.115
44.121
-13.61
Russia
35.746
25.284
+41.38
Sweden
24.175
26.192
-7.7
Italy
23.986
40.904
-41.36
Norway
20.894
17.327
+20.59
Israel
19.395
16.922
+14.61
Denmark
15.641
18.736
-16.52
France
15.555
14.363
+8.30
Czech Rep.
14.039
14.238
-1.4
Netherlands
13.631
13.517
+0.84
Poland
12.366
19.328
-36
Finland
11.148
9.827
+13.44
Belgium
10.780
14.121
-23.66
Austria
9.606
10.023
-4.16
Switzerland
6.031
7.370
-18.17
Slovakia
4.201
5.667
-25.87
Cyprus
2.863
3.146
-9
Ukraine
2.461
2.400
+3
Hungary
2.343
3.066
-23.58
Lithuania
2.130
2.224
-4.23
Luxembourg
1.620
1.841
-12
Romania
1.587
1.740
-8.79
Serbia
1.255
1.358
-7.58
Slovenia
1.132
1.603
-29.38
Lebanon
747
1.087
-31.28
Belarus
731
435
+68
Albania
408
620
-34.19
Egypt
2
23
-91.30

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Minoan Air Routes - Summer 2012

After some back and forth, Minoan finally announced their initial summer schedule valid as of tomorrow 11 July. The airline for the time being will concentrate operations at their base airport of Heraklion and will actually be the 4th airline flying the Heraklion-Rhodes route during the summer season. The route will be served 4 times per week, on Mondays through Thursdays, with morning departures from both airports. Prices seem to follow competition with the airline asking 170E for a round trip.

HERAKLION (HER) - RHODES (valid 11/7 - 29/8)*
Outward Flight: HER-RHO
Flight Nr
Dep.
Arr.
A/C
Frequency
Remarks
MAV108
11:00
12:00
F50Mo-We
MAV108
08:00
08:55
F50
Tu-Th

Return Flight: RHO-HER
Flight Nr
Dep.
Arr.
A/C
Frequency
Remarks
MAV101
12:30
13:30
F50
Mo-We

MAV101
09:30
10:30
F50
Tu-Th



For more information and/or reservations, please visit Minoan Air website.

* Based on Minoan official website on 9 July 2012.