Dubai-based flydubai announced new routes to Thessaloniki from June this year, the airline said Wednesday being the the first UAE airline to operate flights to Thessaloniki.
Chief executive of the carrier said the addition, which also includes flights to Aqaba, will increase the number of underserved markets by flydubai.
“We are looking forward to the start of flydubai’s flights to Aqaba and Thessaloniki. Both cities are major economic, industrial, commercial centres and very popular leisure destinations especially in the summer,” Mr Al Ghaith said.
Jeyhun Efendi, Senior Vice President Commercial (UAE, Middle East, Europe and CIS), said the move will make the destinations “more accessible for travellers” especially those looking for new destinations to explore.
“[This] will undoubtedly stimulate the traffic flows and tourism between the UAE, Greece and Jordan,” he said.
Making these destinations more accessible to travellers looking for news destinations to explore, will undoubtedly stimulate the traffic flows and tourism between the UAE, Greece and Jordan,” Mr Efendi said.
Thessaloniki is the second-largest city in Greece with over one million inhabitants and has a major transportation hub for the country and Southeastern Europe, notably through the port of Thessaloniki.
While the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) reported that for the last two years Greece’s growth had been nearly twice the global industry average of 3.9 percent, tourist travel to Thessaloniki rose by more than five percent in 2016 compared to the previous year, Aristotelis Thomopoulos, President of the Thessaloniki Hotels Association had told Praktoreio 104.9FM.
flydubai flights to Thessaloniki will operate three times a week starting June 15.
