Cheaper Flights to Greece This Summer

With countries around the world looking at how they can begin to safely open up to tourism, Greece has announced that it is temporarily slashing transportation taxes to make travel to and within the country cheaper.

The move means that travellers will be able to book cheaper flights to the popular holiday destination in the summer.

Greece's Prime Minister announced in May that transportation tax - which includes flights to the country - would be slashed almost in half, from 24 per cent to 13 per cent as the country originally planned to reopen to tourists on 1st June, but the date was later changed to 15th June, when international flight routes to Athens and Thessaloniki are set to resume.

Currently, international flights are landing in Athens but testing and quarantine on arrival are mandatory.

When the country welcomes back tourists on the 15th June, only tourists from a list of high-risk areas will require coronavirus testing on arrival.

Greece's handling of the coronavirus crisis has drawn praise from around the world, with the country's numbers of fatalities staying remarkably low, at 183.

Reopening will be a gradual process, but all of Greece's international flight routes are expected to be back up and running by July 1st.

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