Well, 9/11 is being blamed for every bad management move in post-WWII era. It's reaching the stupid point, I agree.
This was quite the embarassement for the gov't since they were ready to award Olympic to them. Phewww, the Olympic boys dodged a big one there. They may try the Australian bidder next or just shut down the airline for 48 hours ala Swissair and try it again.
I can't see how but it should be interesting because I understand Olympic is losing about 800 million drachmas a day (~ $2.1 million US).