Airlines Aegean Airlines and Volotea sign code-share agreement

The airlines Volotea and Aegean Airlines have announced to have signed a code-share agreement that will strengthen the respective networks.

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A bilateral agreement has been signed between Greece carrier Aegean Airlines and Volotea. The agreement is a code-share agreement, meaning that 100 international routes will be bookable for customers through both carriers.

According to Aegean, the 100 city-pairs are routes from various destinations in France, Italy and Spain like Venice, Verona, Naples, Genova, Lyon, Bordeaux, Marseille, Madrid, Barcelona, Athens, Heraklion, Corfu, Mykonos, Zakynthos, or Rhodes.

Dimitris Gerogiannis, CEO of AEGEAN, commented: “As leisure travel gradually returns, we are pleased to initiate this new cooperation with Volotea. The codeshare agreement will provide both our passengers significant additional number of direct flight options between the Greek islands and mainland and Italy, France, and Spain both through our website and travel agents. We remain firmly committed to health-safe travel, to constantly improving our service offering and to keep accelerating our network and options for our customers by collaborating with reliable and fast-growing partners.”

Carlos Muñoz, Founder and CEO of Volotea, added: “We are extremely happy to launch this partnership with AEGEAN, a much-respected European independent airline that we share a lot of values with, in terms of high operational integrity, customer experience and price competitiveness. We selected routes that we believe our clients will be very interested in and have been able to put together a very important number of destinations, which will cater for the increased offer of this summer. This agreement will offer both Volotea and AEGEAN a considerable growth opportunity since all the routes selected have no overlap.”

Both airlines are mostly operating leisure flights to warmer destinations in Europe´s south. This means, that many customers that are looking for holidays in the Mediterranean area will be benefitting from the increased booking option this new cooperation gives them.

Aegean Airlines is the flag-carrier airline of Greece and was founded in 1987, while commencing operations in May 1999. The carrier has its main hub at Athens International Airport and is member of the Star Alliance. Currently, Aegean serves flights with an all-Airbus fleet consisting of one A319, 35 A320s and 13 A321s. The carrier has eight NEO aircraft in its fleet.

Volotea is a low-cost carrier registered in Spain that was founded 10 years ago. The carrier commenced operations in March 2012 and currently has a fleet of 20 Airbus A319s and 13 A320s, meaning that the airline is operating an all-Airbus fleet as well.

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