Overview
- A technical failure affecting radio frequencies across Greek airspace early Sunday halted departures and arrivals nationwide for several hours.
- The Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority restored operations progressively by midday, limiting throughput to about 35 flights per hour across 39 airports.
- Many inbound flights to Greece were diverted to neighboring Turkish airports during the outage.
- The head of the air traffic controllers’ union blamed obsolete equipment and noted a similar disruption occurred last year.
- Transport minister Christos Dimas said there is no danger to flight safety for flights to or from Greek airports.