As we speak AEGEAN completes 25 years of dynamic progress and celebrates with its passengers, its individuals and all those that have contributed to its growth, attaining the imaginative and prescient of its founder, Theodoros Vassilakis, to create a Greek airline that travels the tradition of Greece and its passengers safely. , consistency and high quality in every single place, in Greece and overseas.
Beginning in 1999, with solely two plane, via the systematic effort of its household, via the assist of its shareholders and above all with the belief of its passengers, regardless of the continued crises and challenges that characterize the sector, AEGEAN is immediately on probably the most constant. profitable and steadily rising firms within the European aviation market.
Throughout its 25 years of operation, the stations that performed a central function in its growth stand out as the largest: introduction AEGEAN on the Athens Inventory Change, its participation within the largest international airline alliance Star Alliance, the acquisition of Olympic Air, the order of 46 plane of the Airbus A320 neo household, the most important non-public funding in Greece, which lately elevated to 50 plane, in addition to the creation the primary fashionable Simulation and Flight Crew Coaching Middle in Greece, in one of many first inexperienced hangars in Europe, at Athens Worldwide Airport. An funding with a constructive affect, each for the corporate itself and for the nation. Lately, it moved on to a different main growth cycle with the order of 4 new A321neo LR plane that may cowl distances of as much as 7.5 hours, from Greece to the Gulf areas, India and Central Africa and can enable crews AEGEAN passenger provide. a brand new degree of consolation and repair in long-haul locations outdoors the EU.
On this means, AEGEAN has preserved the values and helpful expertise of the primary technology of its individuals, systematically investing within the growth and perspective of the youngest individuals and with them, within the sustainable perspective of the aviation business in Greece.
AEGEAN now employs greater than 3,700 individuals and operates 76 plane to 156 locations with 249 direct routes in 47 international locations, continuously strengthening its community, domestically and internationally, offering its passengers with a novel, carefully linked journey expertise with Greek hospitality. In 2023 alone, AEGEAN supplied 18.5 million seats, a rise of three.1 million in comparison with 2022, whereas carrying 15.5 million passengers, as much as 3.2 million, attaining a 26% enhance in comparison with the earlier 12 months, and setting a brand new excessive degree all time.
Mr. Eutychios Vassilakis, President of AEGEAN, stated: “25 years since our first flight, the circumstances, sizes and challenges are very completely different, however the aim is all the time the identical. To attempt to provide each day, yearly, one thing extra, one thing completely different to our passengers, upgrading their journey and honoring their selection in us. I consider that Theodoros Vassilakis’ imaginative and prescient of high quality and reliability is immediately deep within the tradition of all our individuals. As we transfer into our subsequent chapter, the problem for our new technology of executives, a a lot bigger crew with nice potential, is innovation and competitiveness for the brand new circumstances, freshness alongside consistency in our core values and naturally keep dedicated to our development, which boosts the picture and aggressive benefit of Greece. Thanks for selecting us each day.”
Mr. Dimitrios Gerogiannis, CEO, stated: “Thanks for the selection, belief and love you’ve proven to AEGEAN and its individuals, for 25 years. Thanks for the heat, respect and smile with which you greet our workers and crew on our plane, within the newsrooms, within the lounges, in our name centre, within the airports, the place you meet us in your a part of journey, the place you get pleasure from it. providers. The providers with the identical ardour, professionalism, high quality, dedication to excellence and humanity, we wish to give you from our first flight. 25 years, each day, on each flight, we try to soundly and persistently provide a high quality product that meets your expectations, but in addition the tradition of hospitality that’s in our DNA. If now we have managed to attain this to this point, we owe it fully to the dedication, consistency, ethos and fervour of our individuals. Of all those that labored to place AEGEAN on the coronary heart of their passengers, but in addition of all those that work immediately or will work tomorrow to plan and information AEGEAN within the subsequent cycle of growth. Designing and delivering a good higher journey expertise, throughout a good larger community. Within the atmosphere through which we function, competitors is fierce, and the challenges within the business are everlasting. The following day we stand firmly on our ft, however all the time with the identical ardour, ambition and imaginative and prescient as 25 years in the past, to deliver AEGEAN even additional, to proceed to profit of your selection”.