Im glad my little report generated so much interest. Its a sad situation that they are in such a mess, Im aware that there is a huge Greek expatriate community in Australia which they are not serving, however with the service levels they are currently offering I presume most people would elect a better airline for such a long flight.

I read recently that there is quite a few English expats in Corfu, at one time OA operated direct from there into LHR. now they have a much longer journey routing via Athens and apparently there is little chance of that route being reinstated. Easyjet have been approached to launch a service I understand.

Athens airports is now quite a joy, not too busy, all under one roof, bright and airy, if OA were better they would be a good carrier to use for transfer connections. I don’t know if they are timing their services to the islands better now, they used tobe unattractive.

As regards to the Olympics I can’t see them ever being ready, the roads, the metro and apparently most of the stadiums are far from complete.

One last thing if you ever try to get a taxi from Piraeus to the airport at about 4.30pm its a night-mare, tried four none wanted to take me. There is an express bus which is fine, its just finding where it stops that is difficult.

Carl

I feel the same, it was even more a surprise as their A340s can’t be that old, it looked knackered inside.

Routes from Liverpool are to Europe and across the Irish Sea. Direct Holidays ran a charter to Orlando for one season, but gave it up. I think the problem was too much capacity at the time to Florida (Laker had come back on the scene,and also VS from MAN) as well as tieing up their 757 aircraft to long, rather than several short hops to the Med.

Euromanx has been operating an ATR 42-300 between IOM and LPL recently, the aircraft is in the colours of City Connect PH-RAQ.