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Popular airlines offering a cheap airfare to Greece. National tourism website, links for ticket reservations. Basic advice for obatining a cheap airfare to Greece.
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Cheap Airfare to Greece
Air travel in Greece seems to be expensive compared to boats and ferries but it is recommend for people pressed for time and/or heading for more destinations.
Olympic Airways and its subsidiary Olympic Aviation at present operate most of the domestic flights within Greece. They offer cheap airfare to Greece and cover a fairly wide network of islands and larger mainland towns, though most routes are to and from Athens or Thessaloníki.
Airline operation has been officially deregulated in Greece since 1993, but the only private airlines to have successfully challenged the state-run carrier are the recently merged Aegean-Cronus Airlines, and newcomer Axon.
Aegean-Cronus has cherry-picked the high-volume, high-profit routes between Crete (Haniá and Iráklio), Thíra, Mytilíni, Rhodes, Corfu Kavála, Ioánnina, Athens and Thessaloníki. Cheap airfare to Greece (internally) are available with this carrier.
Axon, newly appeared in 2001, currently links Athens or Thessaloníki with Sámos, Mykonos, Santórini, Rhodes and Crete (Haniá and Iráklio), though their Embraer jets are the sleekest and fastest things going domestically. Offering cheap airfare to Greece.
Tickets for all three airlines are most easily obtained from travel agents (their own high-street outlets are thin on the ground). Axon and Aegean-Cronus often undercut Olympic price-wise (cheap airfare to Greece), and surpass it service-wise, though flight frequencies tend to be sparse. This, of course, could change drastically if financially troubled Olympic goes under, as is perennially threatened, and a successor state carrier offers inevitably reduced service.
Basic advice for obtaining a cheap airfare to Greece
Stay over a Saturday night. Many airlines have made this a requirement for reduced fares.
Travel on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday traditionally costs less. If your travel plans are flexible, consider these days.
Book cheap airfare to Greece during holidays, or other peak periods, as early as possible. With some companies you can book up to 11 months in advance.
Using airports outside your originating and destination cities, may require a longer drive, but the money you save could make it worthwhile.
Buy your cheap airfare to Greece as far in advance as possible. Fares are often lower when purchased 7, 14 or 21 days in advance.
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