Flights that will take passengers from Athens to the 5 destinations offered by Volotea in 2015: Venice, Santorini, Palermo, Pisa/Tuscany and Bari.
Volotea, the airline of small and mid-sized European cities, started its operation from the Athens International Airport with the Athens-Venice flight. This will be the first of the different flights that will take passengers from Athens to the 5 destinations offered by Volotea in 2015: Venice, Santorini, Palermo, Pisa/Tuscany and Bari.
Operating in Greece since 2012, Volotea has transported close to 200.000 passengers until now, in and out of Greece, with 27 Greek routes since its launch.
Volotea continues its development in Greece and starts its operations in Athens
Starting in April 2015, Volotea launches five new routes from Athens airport:
Domestic routes
- Santorini: starts on May 29th 2015 till October 2nd 2015. 4 weekly flights
International routes
- Venice (Italy): starts on April 3rd 2015 till October 30th 2015. 3 weekly flights.
- Bari (Italy): starts May 29th 2015 till October 1st 2015. 2 weekly flights.
- Palermo (Italy): starts June 26th 2015 till September 4th 2015. 2 weekly flights.
- Pisa/Tuscany (Italy): starts May 29th 2015 till October 2nd 2015. 2 weekly flights.
Volotea has started its operations from Athens with the traditional water arch that has welcomed its first airplane to the Athens International Airport. It will be the first year of operations of Volotea in Athens, and the fourth in Greece, where it has already transported close to 200.000 passengers since April 2012. In total, Volotea will fly to 12 greek destinations this year and will operate 27 greek routes.
Volotea will offer more than 480 flights from Athens in 2015, being the Athens-Venice route the one with the highest number of flights. The company will offer more than 60.000 seats on the routes departing from Athens.
Photo caption: The Volotea and Athens airport teams, during the inaugural ceremony.
Carlos Munoz, CEO and founder of Volotea, has expressed his satisfaction for the inauguration of the operations from Athens: “Having operated in Greece successfully since 2012, now we will be able to connect Athens with Italian destinations like Venice, Pisa, Bari or Palermo, as well as the Greek island of Santorini. We welcome all the Athenians in 2015 and hope to see them soon on board of our flights to those beautiful destinations”.
On behalf of the Athens International Airport, Ioanna Papadopoulou, Director, Communications & Marketing, added: “It is with the utmost pleasure that we welcome Volotea’s substantial development to our airport, starting today with the Athens – Venice route. Further enhancing the connectivity between Greece and Italy, we shall soon be welcoming Volotea’s flights to Pisa/Tuscany, Bari and Palermo, while, at the end of May, our new airline partner will also be serving the spectacular Greek island of Santorini. We wish Volotea every success in its development through Athens International Airport and we remain firmly committed towards supporting the airline to strengthen and enhance its operations to/ from Athens.”
Volotea website, available in Greek
Volotea’s website is from January available in Greek, as well as in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German, so Greek visitors can navigate and buy tickets in their own language.
They have access to all basic Volotea online services, and others more special such as “Flex”, which allows to make unlimited changes to the flights or the brand-new “Combo” for those who want the best extra services for less money.
93% passengers recommend Volotea
Volotea has a fleet of 19 Boeing 717 with 125 seats that offer comfort, confidence and service quality. Their planes have five seats per row and 80% of passengers have window or corridor seat. Moreover, there is a 5% additional space between seats with regard to the competence low-cost and the cabin is very silent.
Volotea offers a good experience to the passengers with qualified and cordial staff that is translated in a 93% recommendation rate (data from quarter one 2015, over 10.000 surveys).
Volotea continues its growth in Europe in 2015
Volotea plans to grow to a total of 153 routes in 2015. This growth will lean on the fleet enlargement with four more planes, from the 15 Boeings 717 from last year to 19 planned for this 2015. In addition, 2 new bases have been incorporated this year reaching 6 bases in total: Venice and Palermo in Italy, Nantes, Bordeaux and Strasbourg in France and Asturias in Spain.
The company expects to close sales in 2015 with 218 million euros. In regard to its employees, that last year represented 480 in high season, the airline expects to reach 580-600 this year.
Photo caption: The traditional “water arch” welcome at the Athens International Airport
Vicky is the co-founder of TravelDailyNews Media Network where she is the Editor-in Chief. She is also responsible for the daily operation and the financial policy. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Tourism Business Administration from the Technical University of Athens and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wales.
She has many years of both academic and industrial experience within the travel industry. She has written/edited numerous articles in various tourism magazines.
