Greece's Aegean Airlines passenger traffic up 8% in April-May

Aegean Airlines grew passenger traffic on its domestic and foreign routes by 8% in April to May compared with last year, starting the summer season on a strong footing, Greece's largest carrier said Tuesday. Aegean flies a young fleet of 61 aircraft, mostly Airbus A320 jets. "The strong investment in the Athens network, coupled with strong demand for (flights) to Greece this year, have yielded a very good start to the summer season," Aegean's CE Dimitris Gerogiannis said. The carrier flew a total of 2.1m passengers in the two month period. Passenger traffic on its international flights grew 15% year-on-year to 1.2m passengers.<br/>