The artist impression of the A330 is quite worrying if it's come from some kind of official source. I really hope they're not seriously considering that any time soon. There's no point in re-hashing the arguments here, but the general consensus is that it would be financial suicide for A3 to expand into wide-bodies, either for European or long-haul flying.

Anyway, no need to be negative in a thread designed to celebrate A3's birthday. Well done and may you be around for another 20 years at least!

My first A3 flight was from Rhodes to Athens in December 1999 on one of the RJ100s, so the airline was just seven months old then. I remember sitting somewhere around 2D or 3D and being able to see clearly approach into the old Ellinikon airport through the open cockpit door as the RJ's had quite a nose-down attitude on approach. Nice memories, but 6-abreast in the RJ100 wasn't really comfortable. They had just four RJs at the time and I seem to remember they served around 10 domestic destinations. Does anybody have any old timetables or route maps from the first year or two?