Olympic Air Shifts International Capacity to Domestic Market

Greek carrier OLYMPIC AIR is to scale back its international activities this summer, suspending flights on five routes and cutting frequencies on four more. The additional capacity will be deployed in the domestic market with two new routes from Athens and four from Thessaloniki, although some international destinations will also see frequency increases. From 27MAR11 Olympic will suspend its activities between Athens and Brussels, London Heathrow, and Vienna and from Thessaloniki and London Gatwick, while from 03MAY11 its Athens – Paris CDG route will also be suspended – together these routes were due to be served 63 times weekly. Its frequencies on flights from Athens to Bucharest (from 12 to nine), Larnaca (17 to 14), Sofia (12 to nine) and Tirana (12 to 10) will be decreased with effect from 27MAR11. Some of this capacity will be redeployed onto the Amsterdam and Cairo routes from Athens, where frequencies will increase to nine- and six-times weekly, respectively. New domestic routes will also be added from Thessaloniki to Chania, Heraklion, Mytilene and Rhodes, and from Athens to Alexandroupolis and Corfu.

Source: Airline Route