The board of Hellenic Seaplanes (Athens Int'l) has chosen Bulgarian ACMI/charter operator Aviostart (VSR, Sofia) as a strategic partner in its bid to develop seaplane operations across the region.
Under the venture, the two companies will share their respective infrastructure to develop operations in Greece as well as Bulgaria, focusing primarily on the Black Sea. In the longterm, the goal is to link the two countries using waterways in Northern Greece.
The first phase in the strategic plan will see the Bulgarian carrier's aircraft being imported into Greece the first of which has already arrived. It will then be used in developing flights from Athens to various Greek islands.
Nicolas Charalambous, Hellenic Seaplanes President and CEO, said: "Greece can become the Maldives of Europe and our alliance with Aviostart will bring us even closer to achieving our goal."
However, the future of seaplane operations in Greece has been rocked by a recently tabled bill that seeks to take away all waterway infrastructural development from the private sector and place it in...
