Starting this month, April, and running for six months, the Greek government recently decided to suspend airlines’ slot fees at the country’s regional airports, as part of the plan to support the tourism sector in what is expected to be a very difficult year for Greece.
“The move is aimed at providing more incentives to international tour operators to design their travel packages for Greece under more favourable prices and not to reduce charter flights to the country,” Transport Minister Evripides Stylianidis and Tourism Development Minister Costas Markopoulos said in a joint news conference.
The move for now concerns domestic flights, and – according to Stylianidis, extending it for the entire year is not out of the question. The possibility of cutting slot fees at the Athens International Airport, however, was not being considered at the moment.
