Aegean Airlines is a Greek airline founded in 1995 that began flying in 1999 and is based in the Athens area. It has been a member of the Star Alliance since June 2010. Since 2013 it has owned Olympic Air, its sister regional airline, which flies mainly domestic routes to the Greek islands under its own brand.
Its main hub is Athens International Airport, with a second hub in Thessaloniki and a base in Larnaca, Cyprus. Further bases at Heraklion, Chania, Rhodes and Kalamata, some of them seasonal, add direct flights to and from the islands. Together, Aegean and Olympic Air serve more than 160 destinations, about 30 of them in Greece, with the rest across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
The group fleet of about 90 aircraft is made up of Airbus A320 and A321 jets, including the newer A320neo and A321neo, and ATR and Dash 8 turboprops flown by Olympic Air.