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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
Aegean Airlines on Friday announced lower losses and higher turnover in the first half of 2018. In an announcement, Aegean Airlines said consolidated turnover grew 1.0 pct to 455.7 million euros in the January-June peirod, while net result after taxes showed a loss of 13.8 million euros, from a loss of 20 million euros in the same period last year.
The Greek airline said passenger traffic totaled 5.9 million euros in the first six months of 2018, up 7.0 pct. Domestic traffic grew 5.0 pct to 2.7 million passengers, while international traffic rose 8.0 pct to 3.3 million. Average flight occupancy rose to 81.7 pct from 79.2 pct, while international traffic to/from Athens grew 13 pct and the airline added 11 new international destinations in its flight schedule from Athens.
Net operating flows totaled 163.2 million euros in the first half from 127.4 million in 2017, with cash reserves totaling 395.8 million euros, up 58.4 million from June 2017.
Dimitris Gerogiannis, CEO, commenting on the results said that the outlook for the third and most important quarter remained positive despite intensifying competition in the market.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.