Only one of the stations is actually ready to go with the others due to be opened in the near future. The return of the airport metro service will be warmly welcomed by business passengers at Athens Airport.

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Teenagers have been blamed by most for causing the problem. As planes land the laser pen is pointed at the cockpit causing the pilot to lose sight. The trend has grown in recent years according to the chairman of the association of Greek pilots Grigoris Constantellos.

So far this year over thirty incidents have been reported. The pens are capable of causing up to five seconds of blindness for the pilots. As well as Athens there have been problems at Crete and Rhodes.

There were arrests in Crete last weekend after two teenagers forced a domestic flight to initially fail to land. There have also been reports of similar incidents in Corfu and Thessaloniki.

On the night there were awards presented for four categories which were Western Europe, Scandinavia & the Baltics, Central & Eastern Europe and Mediterranean & Southern Europe. Winning Airports included Riga, Brussels, Athens and Hamburg.

Not content with just winning the Mediterranean & Southern Europe category, Athens Airport won the overall 1st prize on the night. This means that Athens will now move to the next stage of the competition which will be held in Beijing and is known as the Routes World Airport Marketing Awards. Here Athens will compete against an American, Asian and African Airport.

These awards are considered to be one of the most important in the airline industry. All nominations are made by airlines.

The first Lufthansa flight departed from Athens Airport on May 11th 1959. This plane had arrived from Hamburg the previous day before returning stopping off at Frankfurt and Dusseldorf along the way. There were twenty one Greek officials on board the flight.

From the 13th of May 1959 Lufthansa began a regular service. The cost of the service when worked out with today’s currency rates was a whopping five hundred and sixty two euro.

The route has proved immensely popular over the years carrying millions of people. The airline is credited with helping build tourism in Greece. There are now six flights a day operated by Lufthansa from Athens Airport to Germany. Check out the website www.50flightyears.gr for more information

The object was also seen by pilots on two other planes. It was reported to look like a big star which was not following any direction pattern. Two jets were deployed to investigate the sighting however the object disappeared before they got a chance.

The sighting was kept under wraps for over a year. Recently official document and audio conversations have been released. The story has received a lot of coverage all over the world.

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An official from Olympic airlines confirmed that it was the 1st ever incident of its kind to occur to an Olympic airlines pilot. Government officials believe the object was most likely the planet Venus.

In 1991 a pilot reported having a near miss with an unidentified object at London Heathrow. The Alitalia pilot spoke of seeing a similar object to the one in Athens which had no exhaust.