VISITS OF STUDENTS TO THE ACROPOLIS MUSEUM

Athens, January 21, 2010: Aegean is particularly happy and proud to welcome over 10,000 Lower Secondary School 3rd grade students along with their professors/escorts and provide them with sufficient reasons to take some time off school and savor the experience of a lifetime.

Aegean welcomed the first out of a total of 10,000 students from Heraklion, Chania, Rhodes, Kos and Mytilini. In particular, the first students who visited the Acropolis Museum came from the Experimental Lower Secondary School of Heraklion, the 5th Lower Secondary School of Rhodes, the 2nd Lower Secondary School of Kos,  the 4th  Lower Secondary School of Chania and the Experimental Lower Secondary School of Mytilini. 6,500 students will visit the Museum throughout the project’s 1st phase that commenced on 19/01/2010 and will last up to 18/03/2010. The project’s 2nd phase will last from 13/04/2010 to 13/05/2010. Following months of planning and in smooth collaboration with the Ministry of National Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, the Acropolis Museum and the Athens International Airport, the project “Aegean – Close to the Young Generation” will give the thousands of students from our country’s frontier regions the chance to make their dreams come true and get to know and admire the New Acropolis Museum close up. Students living away from Athens will be able to wander around the New Museum’s facilities and get in touch with exhibits that are synonymous with priceless cultural value. They will get to know some of the finest specimens of our country’s cultural heritage and experience unique feelings of pride.

Children from the towns and villages of Crete, Corfu, Kefalonia, Kos, Lesvos, Limnos, Mykonos, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini and Chios packed their rucksacks, laden with dreams, joy and expectations for a tour in the very heart of Greek civilization. Aegean, having set up an experienced and dedicated team of executives and partners, has made sure that the visit to Athens and the Acropolis Museum tour will live up to the highest of expectations among the children and their professors. They in turn are bound to carry with them invaluable insight into the Greek civilization’s historic past upon their return to their home towns and schools.

In 2010, Aegean, the largest Greek airline, takes our country’s young generation, its most important passengers, the very future of Greece, on a tour – and does so proudly, consistently and safely.