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The new Greek airplane company with the exceptional name – Macedonian Airlines, is expected to make its first flight at the beginning of April 2010. The new airline is part of MIG, which also owns Olympic Air. Macedonian Airlines will service destinations from and to Thessaloniki, which are not covered by Olympic Air.

Macedonian Airlines is right now the name of the national airline of the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia. Obviously, the Macedonian authorities have missed to register the name as a trademark and MIG took advantage of this mistake.

The plan includes opening new destinations to Moscow, London, Paris, Amsterdam and some cities in germany. Regarding the destination Amsterdam-Thessaloniki, MIG is looking at the opportunity to cooperate with the Dutch airline KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

On Wednesday morning Andreas Vgenopoulos – president of MIG, owner of Olympic Air and Macedonian Airlines – met with representatives of the tourism, trade and industry sectors in Thessaloniki. The meeting had the goal to familiarize MIG managers with clients needs – the ones traveling on business trips, just for fun or for tourism.

Based on primary calculations the company needs three new airplanes, in order to be able to satisfy the planned flights. After the airline starts flying, it will become clear which destinations are most attractive and the frequency of the flights will be finalized.

Stavros Daliakas – executive director of Olympic Air expressed his satisfaction from the results of the newly privatized company Olympic. He said that from September 29 until now the airplanes are 60% full and the percentage is increasing.