Tourism: December kicks off with new flights to Greece in 2026

Greece welcomes 2026 with beardown momentum successful aerial transport, arsenic planetary airlines motorboat caller routes to apical Greek destinations, strengthening connectivity and request for Greek tourism. New flights from large markets specified arsenic Italy, Poland, Serbia, the United Kingdom, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are expected to further boost question to Greece during the 2026 summertime season.

New aerial connections to Greece from international, European and non-European destinations were added toward the extremity of 2025, with December further enhancing the outlook for the caller twelvemonth for Greek tourism.

Recently, Wizz Air announced the summation of 2 caller connections to Greece for the upcoming season, from its basal astatine Rome Fiumicino Airport.

The bearer volition connection the caller Rome–Rhodes way each Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, starting connected 28 June 2026, with summons prices starting from €45.99.

One time later, the Rome–Kefalonia way volition begin, operating each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday astatine the aforesaid fare level.

With the summation of 8 caller routes, the hose increases its connections from Fiumicino crossed Europe and the Middle East to 72 destinations successful 28 countries.

Connections with Heraklion strengthened from Poland

New momentum successful question flows from Poland to Crete is expected for the summertime play of 2026, arsenic Corendon Airlines Europe introduces caller flights to Heraklion from Katowice and Warsaw.

According to existent scheduling, the hose volition run 2 play flights from each metropolis to Nikos Kazantzakis Airport, utilizing Boeing 737-800 aircraft, covering the play from 25 April to 29 August 2026.

The Katowice–Heraklion transportation returns aft September 2022, underlining renewed request from Polish travelers for Crete. Flights volition run each Tuesday and Saturday. Departure from Katowice volition beryllium astatine 18:45 (flight XR3203), arriving successful Heraklion astatine 22:15, portion the instrumentality formation (XR3204) volition depart Crete astatine 16:00, arriving successful Poland astatine 17:45.

The caller Warsaw–Heraklion way volition run each Wednesday and Saturday. Flight XR3201 volition depart Warsaw astatine 11:05, arriving successful Heraklion astatine 14:55 connected Saturdays and astatine 15:05 connected Wednesdays. The instrumentality formation to Warsaw (XR3202) volition depart Heraklion astatine 08:00, arriving successful the Polish superior astatine 10:05.

Corendon Airlines Europe’s expanded programme is expected to further enactment the travel of tourists from the Polish marketplace to Crete, which successful caller years has shown beardown show and increasing involvement successful Greek Mediterranean destinations.

New connections to Chania and Kalamata from London

At the aforesaid time, BA EuroFlyer has opened bookings for 2 caller routes to Greece. The British Airways subsidiary further strengthens its beingness successful the Greek marketplace for summertime 2026, adding 2 caller routes to Crete and the Peloponnese.

The hose volition connection nonstop flights London (Gatwick)–Chania and London (Gatwick)–Kalamata, operated with Airbus A320/321 aircraft.

The caller Chania work begins connected 30 April 2026 with 2 play flights, portion from 21 May 2026 the way volition beryllium upgraded to a regular service, importantly boosting spot availability to Western Crete during the highest tourer season.

At the aforesaid time, the Kalamata way volition commence connected 24 May 2026 with 2 play flights.

New Belgrade–Santorini flights are coming

Air Serbia has added the caller Belgrade–Santorini transportation for summertime 2026. The way volition run from 30 April to 27 September 2026, with 2 play flights operated by Embraer E195 aircraft.

Specifically, flights with codification JU558 volition depart Belgrade astatine 12:05 each Sunday and astatine 12:15 each Thursday, arriving successful Santorini astatine 14:55 and 15:05 respectively. Return flights (JU559) volition depart Thira astatine 15:45 connected Sundays and astatine 15:55 connected Thursdays, arriving successful Belgrade astatine 16:40 and 16:50 respectively.

New connections from Israel to Santorini and Thessaloniki

Santorini remains 1 of the astir iconic Greek destinations for Israeli travelers, with Blue Bird Airways adding the Cycladic land to its formation programme for summertime 2026.

The hose volition connection the caller Tel Aviv–Santorini way from 12 June to 2 October 2026, with 2 play flights.

The hose further strengthens its beingness successful the Greek marketplace by besides offering the caller Tel Aviv–Thessaloniki route, different fashionable destination for Israeli visitors. Flights volition statesman connected 20 May 2026 and volition run 3 times per week.

Saudia’s caller Airbus A321XLR connected Riyadh–Athens flights

At the aforesaid time, Saudia is gradually introducing the caller Airbus A321XLR into its operational programme from the 2nd 4th of 2026, with Athens among the destinations wherever the precocious long-range craft volition beryllium deployed.

According to the latest schedule, the hose plans to run the A321XLR connected the Riyadh–Athens way connected 1 of the 3 play flights during the play 5–26 August 2026. However, successful preservation systems the way inactive appears with an A320, meaning passengers should expect authoritative confirmation person to the motorboat date. Saudia’s caller A321XLR volition diagnostic a 144-seat configuration, with 24 seats successful concern people and 120 successful economy.

Eurowings–Smartwings codeshare statement for Greek routes

Finally, Eurowings has expanded its codeshare statement with Smartwings, arsenic a effect of which Smartwings volition run flights connected behalf of Eurowings to 3 Greek destinations.

The caller routes added to the codeshare web see Prague–Corfu, Prague–Kos, and Prague–Thessaloniki, which volition beryllium operated with Smartwings craft and crews, but carrying Eurowings formation numbers.

This determination offers greater flexibility and accrued options for travelers from the Czech marketplace choosing Greek destinations, portion astatine the aforesaid clip strengthening practice betwixt the 2 airlines successful a highly competitory European aviation environment.