Day: September 25, 2017

Electronics now permitted on UK-bound flights from Turkey and Tunisia

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Restrictions on hand-luggage for most UK-bound flights from Tunisia and Turkey have been lifted. Large phones, laptops and tablets are now permitted in the cabin on flights departing from Turkish airports Antalya, Bodrum, Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen and Iszmir, and from Tunisia’s Tunis-Carthage International. Restrictions on carrying large phones, laptops, tablets and accessories into the cabin of UK-bound flights from Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia were introduced in March. However, after working with the aviation industry and international partners to introduce tough additional security measures, the UK government…

Emirates to increase flights to Tunis as tourism recovers

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Emirates is increasing flights between Dubai and Tunis from six to seven a week starting from the end of next month. The additional Dubai to Tunis flight will be operated every Monday with an Emirates Boeing 777-300ER aircraft offering eight private suites in First Class, 42 lie-flat seats in Business Class and 310 Economy Class 310 seats. The added flight will give passengers in Tunis greater access to Emirates’ global route network, particularly destinations in the Middle East, GCC, West Asia, Asia Pacific region and the US, with just one stop in Dubai,…

Greece tourism film wins at the 2017 World Tourism Organisation Awards

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 Greece has been honoured at the recent United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s (UNWTO) 22nd general assembly in Chengdu, China on 15 September. Greece – a 365 Day Destination has won the top prize in the European category of the UNWTO international video competition. The film was submitted by the Greek National Tourism Organisation (GNTO) and was directed by Andonis Theocharis Kioukas, who has masterminded numerous documentaries and videos about Greece in recent years. Neos Kosmos caught up with the talented Mr Kioukas in July at Cine Manto in Mykonos, just before…

17 ISIS Fighters Reported Killed as US Ends Lull in Libya Airstrikes

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The United States military said on Sunday that it had conducted drone strikes on an Islamic State training camp in Libya, killing 17 militants in the first American airstrikes in the strife-torn North African nation since January. A half-dozen “precision strikes” on Friday hit a training camp about 150 miles southeast of Surt, from which militants were moving fighters in and out of the country, stockpiling weapons and equipment, and plotting and conducting attacks, the Pentagon’s Africa Command said in a statement. Three vehicles were also destroyed. Between August and…