OREANDA-NEWS. May 12, 2011. Moscow Domodedovo Airport has announced the launch of regular flights to Greece in partnership with Greek operator Aegean Airlines.

Comfortable direct flights to Athens and Salonika, popular Greek destinations, will be available all year around.

The regular flights will be operated according to the following timetable:

Flight number

Route

Days of the week

Departure

Arrival

Athens

A3 970

Athens – Moscow DME

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

23:20

3:55

A3 971

 Moscow DME - Athens

7:10

9:30

Salonika

A3 580

Salonika – Moscow DME

Friday, Sunday

9:30

13:45

A3 583

Moscow DME - Salonika

14:45

17:00

Local time

The flights are operated on modern airliners A320 with business and economy classes. Alongside the main destinations, Aegean Airlines also operates flights from Moscow Domodedovo Airport to such popular destinations as Cos, Rhodes, Iraklion and Kerkira.

Aegean Airlines is the largest Greek airline (in 2009 its passenger traffic came to 6.6 million people). The company air-fleet consists of 32 aircrafts. Over 10 years of regular flights AEGEAN was awarded with thee European Regions Airline Associatio Award 6 times. In 2009 the company was also distinguished by the Skytrax World Airline Award for Best Regional Airline in Europe.

Moscow Domodedovo Airport is the largest Russian airport servicing 44% of Moscow air-passenger traffic. In 2010 its services were used by 22.3 million passengers. More than 70 Russian and overseas airlines work in partnership with Domodedovo. Moscow Domodedovo Airport has been selected as its Moscow base by the leading international aviation alliances such as Star Alliance, oneworld and SkyTeam.