Olympic Air (OA, Athens) is the new name of the private carrier owned by Marfin Investment Group that has started to replace state owned Olympic Airlines (OP/Athens) on September 29. It has taken delivery of eight A319-100s, four A320-200s, an ATR 42-300, five Dash 8-100s (including the four ex-Olympic Airlines aircraft), five Dash 8-400 dry-leased from Flybe. (BE/Exeter) and four aircraft of the same type wet-leased from Flybe. It has not taken over the A340-300s, ATR 42-300s, ATR 72-200s, B737-300s and B737-400s of Olympic Airlines. It has also wet-leased an ATR 42-300 from DOT – Danu oro transportas (R6/Vilnius). It has started to operate on the following network: Athens-Alexandria El Nohza: 4x weekly A319-100 service Athens-Alexandroupolis: 2x daily A319-100/Dash 8-400 service Athens-Amsterdam: daily A320-200 service Athens-Beirut: daily A319-100/Dash 8-400 service Athens-Belgrade: daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-Brussels Ntl: 2x daily A319-100 service Athens-Bucharest Otopeni: 2x daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-Cairo: daily A320-200 service Athens-Chania: 4x daily A319-100/Dash 8-400 service Athens-Chios: daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-Heraklion: 7x daily A319-100/A320-200/Dash 8-400 service Athens-Ioannina: 2x daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-Istanbul Ataturk: 2x daily A319-100/A320-200 service Athens-Kavala: 2x daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-Kefallinia: daily ATR 42-300/Dash 8-400 service Athens-Kerkyra: 2x daily A320-200/Dash 8-400 service Athens-Kos: 3x daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-Larnaca: 2x daily A319-100 service Athens-Lemnos: daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-London Heathrow: 3x daily A320-200 service (five weekly services will move to Gatwick on October 27) Athens-Milan Malpensa: daily A319-100 service Athens-Mykonos: up to 2x daily Dash 8-100/400 service Athens-Mytilene: 2x daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-Paris CDG: 2x daily A319-100 service Athens-Preveza: daily Dash 8-100/-400 service Athens-Rhodes: 5x daily A319-100/Dash 8-400 service Athens-Rome Fiumicino: 2x daily A319-100 service Athens-Samos: 2x daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-Santorini: 2x daily ATR 42-300/Dash 8-400 service Athens-Sofia: daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-Syros: up to 2x daily Dash 8-100 service starting on October 25 Athens-Tel Aviv Ben Gurion: daily A319-100 service Athens-Thessaloniki: 8x daily A319-100/A320-200 service Athens-Tirana: daily Dash 8-400 service Athens-Vienna: daily A319-100 service Athens-Zakinthos: 6x weekly ATR 42-300 service Rhodes-Heraklion: daily Dash 8-100 service Thessaloniki-Chania: 5x weekly Dash 8-400 service starting on October 25 Thessaloniki-Heraklion: 2x daily Dash 8-400 service starting on October 25 Thessaloniki-Lemnos: daily Dash 8-400 service Thessaloniki-Mytilene: daily Dash 8-400 service Thessaloniki-Rhodes: daily Dash 8-400 service starting on October 25 For the time being and due to the lack of traffic rights for the new carrier, all services to Alexandria, Beirut, Belgrade, Cairo, Istanbul, Tel Aviv and Tirana will be operated with Olympic Air aircraft on behalf of the old Olympic Airlines using the new OP IATA code. Because the Greek government has postponed the bidding process for the domestic public service obligation routes, these routes will also be operated by Olympic Air on behalf of Olympic Airlines until the PSO routes are awarded to new carriers after the elections in Greece: Athens-Astypalaia: 3x weekly Dash 8-100 service Athens-Ikaria: 4x weekly Dash 8-100/-400 service Athens-Karpathos: 4x weekly Dash 8-100/-400 service Athens-Kithira: 5x weekly Dash 8-100/-400 service Athens-Leros: 6x weekly ATR 42-300 service Athens-Naxos: 6x weekly ATR 42-300/Dash 8-100 service Athens-Milos: up to 2x daily Dash 8-100 service Athens-Paros: up to 2x daily Dash 8-100 service Athens-Sitia: 3x weekly Dash 8-400 service Athens-Skiathos: 2x weekly Dash 8-100 service Athens-Skiros: 2x weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Chios-Mytilene-Lemnos: weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Kastelorizo: 4x weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Karpathos: 6x weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Karpathos-Kasos-Sitia: 6x weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Kos-Leros-Astypalaia: 2x weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Mytilene-Lemnos: 2x weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Samos-Chios-Mytilene-Lemnos: weekly Dash 8-100 service Rhodes-Samos-Mytilene-Lemnos: weekly Dash 8-100 service Sitia-Alexandroupolis: 2x weekly Dash 8-400 service Sitia-Preveza: 2x weekly Dash 8-400 service Thessaloniki-Chios: 2x weekly Dash 8-100 service Thessaloniki-Kalamata: 2x weekly Dash 8-400 service Thessaloniki-Kerkyra: weekly Dash 8-400 service Thessaloniki-Kerkyra-Preveza-Kefallinia-Zakinthos: 2x weekly Dash 8-400 service Thessaloniki-Samos: 2x weekly Dash 8-400 service Thessaloniki-Skiros: 2x weekly Dash 8-100 service Olympic Air will no longer serve routes previously operated by Olympic Airlines from Athens to Berlin Tegel, Dubai, Dusseldorf Intl, Frankfurt Intl, Johannesburg Intl, Kalymnos, Kastoria, Kozani, Kuwait, Madrid, Manchester, Milan Linate, Montreal Trudeau, Moscow Sheremetyevo, Munich, New York JFK, Stuttgart and Toronto Pearson and from Thessaloniki to Berlin Tegel, Dusseldorf Intl, Istanbul Ataturk, Mykonos and Stuttgart. Olympic Air has signed a codeshare agreement with Delta Air Lines (DL/Atlanta) for the Athens-New York JFK route operated by its US partner and domestic services in Greece and the United States. It has also announced plans for similar codeshare agreements with Aerosvit Airlines (VV/Kiev Borispol), Air France (AF/Paris CDG), Baboo (F7/Geneva), CSA Czech Airlines (OK/Prague), Cyprus Airways (CY/Larnaca), Etihad Airways (EY/Abu Dhabi), KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL/Amsterdam) and Singapore Airlines (SQ/Singapore Changi).