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Old Mar 2, 2012 | 7:41 am
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Thanks, that does indeed make sense. The funny thing is that with both airlines serving different destinations, there was no competition anyway..

Anyway, I was at ATH yesterday and asked at the Olympic and KLM ticket desks.

- Olympic said nothing has been confirmed, but it seems to be final. However there still is a possibility that they will re-add flights to AMS for this summer.
- The OA lady offered me to refund my ticket directly, but also said chances are that Olympic will rebook on other carriers later on. I chose to wait a bit more.

- At the KLM desk it became clear this was a very radical action, with no notice whatsoever to KLM. They confirmed that KLM did indeed reduce capacity on the route due to the OA codeshares.
- The KLM lady expects that KLM will re-add at least one flight, and it should happen soon. The new schedule will go into effect in 3 weeks from now.

Unfortunately I didn't have time to ask Aegean as well, but I doubt they would have been able to tell me anything.

It was good to read that Greek newspapers have judged OA quite a lot on the issue. They ran an article outlining the fact that OA and KL had just recently started a partnership through codeshares, and that OA has changed direction suddenly and without notice. From now on OA will focus more on eastern flights, Israel mainly, and not western Europe.

Is there anybody else here that was impacted by the cancelations? I booked Malev, they went under...I replaced with OA and now thats cancelled too. Meanwhile ticket prices are through the roof, and if I need to rebook myself it will cost at least twice as much from what I originally paid. Anybody else waiting for the right moment to book alternative flights?
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