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☆ Greek archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old stone building on hill earmarked for new airport
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( The Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

AP —A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the Greek tourist island. Resembling a huge car wheel from above, the ruins of the labyrinthine, 1,800-square-meter (19,000-square-foot) building came to light during a recent dig by archaeologists. The building may have been used for religious or ritual purposes, the Greek Culture Ministry said. Greek Culture Ministry/APThe site was earmarked for a radar station to serve a new airport under construction near the town of Kastelli. Archaeologists don’t yet know what the hilltop structure was for.

Persons: it’s, Greece’s, It’s, Lina Mendoni, “ Organizations: AP, Ministry, Greek Culture Ministry, Athens International Locations: Kastelli, Heraklion, Knossos, Greece

☆ Passengers say they were stuck on grounded Qatar Airways plane for hours amid Greek heatwave
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Dozens of passengers who boarded a Qatar Airways plane in Athens, Greece on Monday expected to be on their way to their destination – Doha, Qatar – relatively quickly. Instead, they found themselves trapped inside a grounded plane for more than three hours, according to passenger Garth Collins, who posted about his experience on Instagram. In a video posted by Collins, passengers can be seen standing up from their seats and in the aisles of the plane, fanning themselves and fellow passengers with paper. Zeiher told 7News that she received “zero information” from Qatar Airways, so she decided to rebook her onward flight to Australia through Emirates. According to flight tracking website Flightradar24, flight QR204 was supposed to leave Athens International Airport at 1:55 p.m. local time.

Persons: Garth Collins, Collins, Michael Mosley, Jennie Zeiher, Joe, Zeiher, ‘, ” Zeiher, ”, 7News, QR204 Organizations: CNN, Qatar Airways, –, Athens International Airport, 7News, Doha’s Hamad International Airport, Athens International Locations: Athens, Greece, – Doha, Qatar, British, Symi, ATH, Doha, Melbourne, Australia, Emirates, DOH

☆ Their partially sighted cat went missing on a flight. Weeks later they still don’t know what happened to it
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

That’s what happened to Alyssa Kopp and her mother Mary Gomes Kopp when their cat Rodri went missing on a flight in Europe on March 8. ‘She was so grateful’Alyssa Kopp and her mother Mary Gomes Kopp rescue stray animals on Crete. Gomes Kopp and her husband, Alyssa’s stepfather, are German but have a home on the Greek island of Crete. They had been adopted by a German family, and Gomes Kopp had offered to bring them over. Gomes Kopp was allowed into an aircraft loading area one time, but has not been allowed back since.

Persons: CNN —, they’ve, Alyssa Kopp, Mary Gomes Kopp, Rodri, Gomes Kopp, Alyssa’s, ”, Kopp, “, it’d, ” Rodri, Alyssa, Alyssa Kopp Rodri, we’d, ” Kopp, –, ‘, Nicolas Economou, Goldair, ‘ Rodri, ’ Gomes Kopp, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, Aegean Airlines, Rodri, Airlines, Staff, Athens International, Iberia, Naia, Tenerife Locations: Europe, Aegean, Crete, It’s, Germany, Munich, Chania, Athens, –, “, Greece, Iberia, Spain, Madrid

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece completed a major privatization Friday, selling its 30% stake in the biggest airport operator in the tourism-reliant country during an initial public offering, officials said. Shares in Athens International Airport are expected to begin trading on the Athens stock exchange starting Wednesday, the airport said in a statement. Finance Minister Costis Hadzidakis said the listing of a new blue chip stock would provide a strong boost to Greek capital markets. The initial public offering drew demand that exceeded the number of shares available, raising 785 million euros ($848 million) for Greece's state HRADF privatization fund. Photos You Should See View All 45 ImagesSome 32 million tourists visited Greece in 2023, up from about 28 million a year earlier.

Persons: Costis Hadzidakis, HRADF Organizations: —, Finance Locations: ATHENS, Greece, — Greece, Athens

☆ A coffin was accidentally left on a plane at Dublin Airport and flown back to Greece
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

One man's remains were accidentally left on a plane at Dublin Airport and flown back to Greece. An Irishman who passed away in Greece was transported by plane to Dublin Airport but an unloading mistake resulted in his coffin being flown all the way back to Greece, Irish newspaper the Sunday Independent reported. On May 22, the man's remains were transported in a coffin on an Aegean Airline plane from Athens International Airport to Dublin Airport where his family had been waiting for him with a hearse, per the Sunday Independent. However, due to a "misload," the coffin wasn't spotted by grounds service and thus never unloaded from the plane, the newspaper wrote. Swissport, the company responsible for ground handling at Dublin Airport, reportedly resolved the situation by arranging for the man's body to be returned on another flight the next day, the newspaper wrote.

Persons: Swissport Organizations: Dublin Airport, Morning, Irish, Sunday Independent, Athens International, Swissport, Aegean Airlines, Twitter, Skytrax Locations: Greece, Athens, Aegean, Europe

☆ Greek police search Ryanair passenger plane over bomb threat
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Passengers of a Ryanair plane ride on a bus, after their flight landed at Athens' International Eleftherios Venizelos airport, following a bomb threat in midair, on the outskirts of Athens, Greece, January 22, 2023. REUTERS/Alkis KonstantinidisATHENS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Police on Sunday were searching a Ryanair (RYA.I) passenger plane that landed at Athens International Airport for any suspicious items after receiving an alert for a bomb threat, police officials said. The plane, which was flying from Katowice in Poland to Greece arrived in Athens escorted by two fighter jets at 5:35 p.m. (1535 GMT). Police were later searching passengers as they were disembarking and their luggage was lined up outside the aircraft. Reporting by Renee Maltezou and Alkis Konstantinidis Editing by Frances KerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Emirates plane returns to Athens after U.S. security tip off
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

ATHENS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - An Emirates plane flying to New York from Greece was forced to return to the Athens International Airport after a security alert, police sources said on Thursday. Greek authorities were tipped off by U.S. about a "suspicious" passenger on the plane, according to police sources and local media. Just after 2000 GMT the plane, escorted by two fighter jets, landed back at the Eleftherios Venizelos airport in Athens for security checks, the sources said. Earlier on Thursday, another Emirates flight to Dubai was not allowed to take off from Eleftherios Venizelos and all passengers were thoroughly checked also for security concerns but nothing suspicious was found, police sources added. Reporting by Renee Maltezou and Angeliki Koutantou; Editing by Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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