Athens International copes through Greek financial crisis

Athens International (ATH) has managed to attract 11 new airlines this year and is "coping rather well" with the adverse economic environment in Greece, ATH director-communications and marketing Lonna Papadopoulou told ATW at the recent World Route Development Forum in Berlin. However, passenger traffic in the first nine months of 2011 did fall 5% compared to the year-ago period. "Domestic traffic was the most severely hit, and decreased year-on-year by 11.8%. Greek people ...