“Become a champ and not a champ”: The viral spot of OASTH with the participation of 5 famous athletes (video)

With a 42-second spot, which will start airing in all media from the next few days, and with the slogan “In your life become a champ (not a champion”), five important – each in their own way – athletes of Thessaloniki , join their voice with OASTH and call on the citizens and residents of the area, to make proper use of public transport and not to avoid using a ticket.

The spot was presented today, during a relevant press conference, with the president and managing director of OASTH, Professor George Skodra, to point out that “sports and urban transport are areas that must unite citizens” and in this context called on citizens to use this public good they have with respect.

“For the last five years, if there was no OASTH, I could not go to my basketball trainings every day”, pointed out the basketball player of the Aris basketball team, Homeros Netzipoglou, with the 400-meter runner of the “Alexandros Makedonias” AIC urging Michalis Pappas the passenger public to respect the environment and the services offered to it.

“Urban transport is a social good, the value of which one understands only when one loses it,” said Hercules volleyball team coach Andrei Kravarik, stressing that society should respect his efforts. organization, which, as he stressed, “performs a very difficult task for the whole society.”

In those days when, if OASTH did not exist, he could not go to his training consistently, recalled, in his videotaped message, the gold medalist of the instrumental gymnastics Ioannis Melissanidis, while the leader of the PAOK football team, Andelino Andre Vierinia expressed his pleasure to participate in such an important project.

OASTH is the main pillar of transport in Thessaloniki, noted the mayor of Thessaloniki Konstantinios Zervas, participating online in the press conference. He stressed the need for the financial health and operational adequacy of the organization. Among other things, he referred to the initiative of the Municipality of Thessaloniki for the purchase of 49 buses from Leipzig and stressed that the replacement of the 315 stops of OASTH, which was not in good condition, has already begun.

In this context, Mr. Skodras praised the initiative of the Municipality of Thessaloniki for the purchase of 49 buses from Leipzig and expressed the hope that this move will find other imitators, because as he said “public transport is a matter for all of us”.

Increase revenue and sales of multi-route cards

OASTH “sees” an increase in revenues and sales of multi-route cards, according to Mr. Skodras, who, however, admitted that the coronavirus pandemic is still the regulator of passenger traffic.

According to him, ticket / fare revenue has increased to 40% -45%, compared to 2020 and the months of the harsh measures of the pandemic, but they are still 30% lower than in 2019.

The measures taken by OASTH to increase the revenues from the fare were many, pointed out the director of revenue assurance of OASTH Christos Hatzigeorgiou. Among them, he mentioned the increase in the number of auditors, the surprise and preventive checks by stationary auditors, the training of auditors and the use of electronic means of controlling ticket evasion.

However, as he said, the regular customers of the organization are provided with multi-route cards, a fact that is reflected in their sales. He typically stated that in December 2021, compared to November 2021, sales increased by 60%, while the comparison between January this year and the same month in 2021, showed a percentage change of 130%.

Among other things, the head of OASTH stressed that the organization is entering the era of modern technological tools and in this context announced that the smart route card is being prepared. He stressed that 460-470 buses circulate daily in the Peripheral Unit of Thessaloniki and OASTH has another 57 ready waiting for their drivers.

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