Aegean Airlines

[Ray Finkle]

Thanks to Brum X for the heads up, Athens is now bookable for S18. It runs from 19/06 until 29/09, so there may be an extra week or two, the schedule looks more or less the same.

Great to see it bookable

 

[nwoody2001]

Indeed, would love to have seen growth but just happy that it lives to see another year!!!

 

[Ray Finkle]

Another airline gone and another city added to the unserved list.

Easyjet start the route from Bristol in a few weeks so at least we'll have an option not too far away.

 

[Ianbutty]

Has it gone for good or just the end of the season?

 

[Ray Finkle]

Not bookable anywhere for next year.

 

[Brum X]

Not news i want to hear

But it was bookable a few weeks ago. its even gone from the drop down list.

Our star alliance airlines are slowly slipping away. Maybe one for Primera Air as they do serve athens from a number of scandinavian airports in S18.

 

[User001]

That's not good.

I had noticed MAN has gone down to 3 weekly again next summer after being bookable at 4 weekly. Was going to check BHX but didn't have time.

Wonder what's caused them to have a slight retreat in the UK regions, as Greece performed quite well this summer across the board?

 

[Brum X]

That's not good.

I had noticed MAN has gone down to 3 weekly again next summer after being bookable at 4 weekly. Was going to check BHX but didn't have time.

Wonder what's caused them to have a slight retreat in the UK regions, as Greece performed quite well this summer across the board?

We will never know User001 , it appears to be the trend at the minuite.

 

[Bhx_fifteen]

Really sad news. I love Aegean and their onward connections are amazing. Flown with them from Birmingham to Athens, Santorini, Mykonos and Milos.

This could be one for Blue Air who already fly there and have a partnership with Sky Express for onward connections which would really fill the gap left by Aegean.

Terrible flight times and low brand awareness in the region probably didn't help - a twice weekly service probably could have been sustained otherwise.

 

[jfy1999]

I didn't get the late arrival times either. Other UK airports had much earlier arrival times.

Ryanair have announced a big expansion at Athens but Stansted is still the only UK route.

 

[thunderchild]

I think the timings were down to arriving in Athens early enough to connect onto the morning bank of connections to the Greek islands.

 

[ethanegcc]

Yes @thunderchild is correct.

Last summer at MAN, they operated 4-weekly: 2-weekly in the morning, 2-weekly late at night to connect to Olympic's 0600am departure bank to the rest of the Greek islands.

They struck the right balance at MAN by offering 2 flights for O&D and 2 flights for connections but unfortunately that wasn't replicated at BHX. For a city break, the timings of the late flight outbound really aren't useful or attractive at all.

 

[Coathanger16]

Managed to claw back another one. Surprised no one else has reported on this yet - maybe too distracted by the election

"AEGEAN is also adding 3 new destinations to its network directly to Birmingham, Paphos, Bilbao"

AEGEAN 2020: Starting point for more | About Aegean

Aegean Airlines - Official Website. Book your flight to Athens, Greece and Europe with Aegean Airlines, the largest Greek airline. Reserve cheap flights.

en.about.aegeanair.com

Looks to operate twice a week on Tue & Fri.

 

[Nethercote2019]

Very shocked ....& delighted

 

[IanFarquharson]

Very shocked ....& delighted

Yes saw a tweet from them last night but it was in Greek !

 

[nwoody2001]

looking at the schedule on their website its Wed/Sun flights... and they aren't cheap, looking at £230 One-way!

Runs June - Sept....

great to have them back though!

 

[Nethercote2019]

Greek to me too.... was it only weekly before and similar months ops?
I hear they have new updated scheme aswell

 

[mullion]

Yes there is a new scheme coming on the neos with a dark blue tail

 

[thunderchild]

Didn’t see this coming at all. Good to see the route development team clawing back lost routes/airlines. I guess there won’t be any chance of Icelandair returning until the MAX issue is resolved.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Well that one came out of nowhere but definitely good news to see ATH back

Lets hope that it sticks around this time.

was it only weekly before and similar months ops?

For the first couple of years it was 2x weekly June-Sept, they then tried it for one full summer season before cutting back again and then finally stopping.