Aegean Airlines is an
Airline based in
Athens ,
Greece . It operates scheduled services from Athens and
Thessaloniki to other major Greek destinations and to a number of European destinations. Its main bases are
Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport , Athens, with a hub at
Makedonia Airport ,
Thessaloniki (SKG).
Aegean Airlines was founded as Aegean Aviation in
1987 . It was originally a VIP/business air operation specialising in executive and air ambulance services. On
17 February 1992 it became the first airline to be issued with a Greek independent air operator's licence. After it was bought by
Vasilakis Group in
1994 , Aegean Aviation commenced VIP flights from Athens all over the world with wholly owned
Learjet aircraft. The Aegean Airlines title was adopted with the start of scheduled passenger services at the end of May
1999 . Its first commercial flights were from
Athens to
Heraklion ,
Crete and
Thessaloniki ,
Macedonia , with 2 brand new wholly owned
BAe 146 /RJ100. During
2000 Aegean bought Air-Greece.
After an agreement in March
2001 to merge Aegean and Cronus Airlines, it operated for a while as Aegean Cronus Airlines until full integration.
''Domestic''
''European''
The Aegean Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (at February
2006 ):
Aegean Airlines recently announced placing an order for 8
Airbus A320 , of a total value of 420 mil.
Dollars , with an option of an extra 12 aircraft of the A320 family (A319/A320/A321), which will gradually replace the existing Boeing 737-300/400
