Direct flights between Tel Aviv and Thessaloniki

The participants’ interest for Thessaloniki was great and much more when compared to last year’s exhibition. The main reason were the two important announcements concerning air transportation.
Aegean Airlines announced a pilot program of airline connection between Thessaloniki and Tel Aviv, three times per week, as of May 29th 2017 until October 15th 2017  Also the second bigger Israeli airline company, Arkia Airlines Ltd announced that as of June this year it will start direct flights connecting the two cities one to two times per week. This will go on until October with the option of expanding the program for the winter months as well.
Many journalists from sites, magazines and newspapers are interested in such travel options, including the Israeli edition of National Geographic that will visit Thessaloniki with the press trip that the Union will soon organize.
Thessaloniki is close to the hearts of the Israelis due to the history of the city, the Jewish presence there until the holocaust as well as the bond between the two nations. They are mostly interested in city break tourism, with family packages as well as active tourism especially close to the city, like Mount Olympus and Meteora.