A Greek company is “proceeding with one of the largest private investments ever undertaken in Greece,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Wednesday, welcoming Aegean Airlines’ first of 46 new airbus carriers ordered by the company, ANA reports.
After making a special mention to the late Cretan founder of Aegean Airlines Theodoros Vassilakis, the prime minister expressed the hope Vassilakis’ successors “will realize his dream for an airliner that will dominate the skies of the world.” Mitsotakis also spoke of the company’s achievements, including being named Europe’s best regional company for nine consecutive years and emphasized that over the past 20 years some 141 million passengers have made it their airline of choice. The company has an excellent safety record and has essentially become Greece’s national carrier, the premier pointed out.
Addressing Aegean’s workers, he congratulated them “on the company you have built,” saying that the company employed a total of 5,100, of whom 90 pct were employed year-round. Half of them are under 35 years old, he said, and 600 of them take part in the company’s profits in the form of bonuses.
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