Olympic Airlines/Air

[Maverick8701]

Def not 5 between 1 and 4 at different times.

[Cloud1]

Will be 4 although I am confused as on the Athens Airways thread it suggests they are going to them.....so Maverick (best person to ask as BE crew) which airline is it to be?

[Maverick8701]

No Q400's going to Athens Airways. They bought some of the 145's but nothing to do with this. Able to see this on Jethro/CAA etc.


Still early days as not officially announced Im sure all details will be disclosed when it is. Or we will see it on our rosters just hope im allowed out of Jersey!

[RED WINGS]

Maverick, nice to see your spreading company confidential information! Do you really think thats a good idea??

[Maverick8701]

Apologies chaps didn't realise info was confidential as released to crew and freeley discussed. Have removed info that has not been previously posted in hindsight perhaps something for the private thread.

Don't want to be losing my job especially at this time!! time for a little bridge buliding if any managers reading apologies once again.

[gkaloy10]

The revamp is pretty insane at the mo, MIG really want to hide Aegean Airways. MIG are using public competitions for the logo and the new clothing!

MIG definatly have the $$$ to back it all so i hope they make Olympic proud!

[gkaloy10]

Olympic Airlines orders 16 Bombardier Q400s

MONTREAL * Good news for Bombardier Inc.'s Q400 turboprop order book. Greece's Olympic Airlines Friday announced a $224 million U.S. order for eight aircraft and took options on eight more.
The newly privatized Olympic is renewing all its fleet. The Q400s will be operated by Pantheon Airways, Olympic's newly-acquired regional unit.
The Q400 is assembled in Toronto and its Pratt & Whitney engines are made in Montreal.



Olympic Airlines orders 16 Bombardier Q400s

[MerNion]

First picture of the first Airbus A319 of Olympic Air with the new full livery just out of the paintshop in Southend:

Athens airport aviation news: First Airbus A319 registered SX-OAK in full Olympic Air colors

(had to use this url shortening because blog spot . com links aren't allowed here)

Registered SX-OAK. Another A319 is in SEN and 2 in Norwich being painted..

[sharpclassic]

Will the new Olympic being doing the same routes as the old Olympic or will there be some changes?

Can't find anything as regards rout network on the internet anywhere!

[Seljuk22]

Olympic Air (OA) is the successor of Olympic Airways. Start: 1st Oct.
The fleet consists of A320/A319 (lease) and Q400 (order).
No long haul flights to JFK, YUL-YYZ and JNB from 1st Oct. A340 go back to the Greek government.
I've read around 65% of the current routes will continue.

[gkaloy10]

Olympic Air startup flight schedule effective 29 September

Olympic Air, the new carrier established in Greece by Marfin Investment Group deployed today its startup schedule. Flights cover the period between 29Sep and 24Oct. The flight schedule for the winter season (effective 25Oct) will be announced through the company's new website. You can view the whole timetable here.

Routes that are abandoned are :
Domestic Network :
- Athens-Syros
- Athens-Kozani/Kastoria
- Thessaloniki-Rhodes (direct flight)
- Thessaloniki-Chania
- Thessaloniki-Heraklion
International Network :
- Thessaloniki-Istanbul
- From Athens to :
New York
Montreal/Toronto
Johannesburg
Kuwait/Dubai
Madrid
Manchester
Frankfurt
Munich
Dusseldorf
Stuttgart
Berlin
Moscow

The announced timetable requires at least 7 A319, 3 A320, 7 DH4 (one based at Thessaloniki Airport), 3 DH8 (1 based at Rhodes Airport) and 1 ATR42. It should be highlighted that the DH8s and the sole ATR will exclusively be used for PSO(Public Service Obligation) services.

There are also some flight numbering changes according to the following scheme :
- All PSO flights are renumbered (if different) between 000-099
- BEG renumbered from 385-388 to 397-398
- TIA renumbered from 117-118 to 317-318
- BEY renumbered from 313-314 to 463-464
- LCA renumbered from 329-338 to 431-438
- ALY renumbered from 327-328 to 487-488
- CAI renumbered from 325-326 to 485-486
- TLV renumbered from 301-302 to 451-452

[gkaloy10]

Olympic Airlines is officially closed down. Now known as Olympic Air!

[Ifield Lad]

Olympic

Hopefully this is the correct place to post this and hopefully this is news to somebody! Copied and pasted from an email I received::

"a sad moment for many, as Olympic Airlines ceased operations today. A new private Olympic Air is taking over 65% of Olympic Airlines routes.
The last ever passenger flight of Olympic Airlines was performed today. It was flight OA424 from Toronto to Athens, operated by Airbus A340 SX-DFB. The crew performed a farewell low pass over Athens Airport before returning to land.
For those who whould like to see some photos of the low pass and some further info, check this:
http://athensairport.*************/2009/09/olympic-airlines-a340-last-...
Farewell to Olympic Airlines, safe flights to Olympic Air!"

Sorry to waste everybodies time. Seems like this is "old" info.

[gkaloy10]

New advert


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOz8Uxvup2I

[EISNN]

Great advert. Shame that there are no A340's in the advert. Hopefully there'll be a new advert to advertise the restart of N American and Oz services. Or am I deluded???

[gkaloy10]

It looks like Olympic are also going to fly to gatwick aswell as heathrow from athens.

[Towerman]

The Reciever / Administrator for the old Olympic Airlines was appointed on Thursday last week who presumably will dispose of the defunct assets and aircraft that wont be operated by new Olympic.

Does anyone have the contact details or identity of this Administrator?

[RED WINGS]

appears Parc are advertising in flight again

[Waldo]

Athens to Prevesa

Does anyone know if this route has been dropped by Olympic Air? Lots of sailing types a bit upset!

[BAROREF]

Merge for Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air?

there is a rumour going on the last days in greece that a merge is going to take place within the two major carrier.