Cyprus Airways

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Cyprus Airways

IATA CY	ICAO CYP	Callsign CYPRUS
Founded		1947
Hubs		Larnaca International Airport
Focus cities		Paphos International Airport
Frequent flyer program		SunMiles
Member lounge		Executive Lounge
Fleet size		10
Destinations		26
Parent company		Cyprus Airways Public Ltd.
Headquarters		Nicosia, Cyprus
Key people		Frixos Savvides(CEO)
Website: http://www.cyprusairways.com

Cyprus Airways (Greek: Κυπριακές Αερογραμμές, Kipriakes Aerogrammes) is the national airline of Cyprus, based in Nicosia. It operates scheduled services to cities in Europe, the Middle East and the Gulf. Its main base is Larnaca International Airport (LCA), with a hub at Paphos International Airport (PFO).

1 History
2 Services
3 Fleet
4 Livery
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Cyprus Airways was established on 24 September 1947 as a joint venture between the Cypriot Government, BEA (British European Airways) and private interests. Operations commenced on 18 April 1948 with Douglas DC-3 aircraft on regional routes from Nicosia. Under a charter agreement, Cyprus Airways began to use BEA Vickers Viscount airliners from 18 April 1953 over the Athens-Nicosia sector as a continuation of the BEA London-Rome-Athens service. BEA took over the operation of all Cyprus Airways services effective 26 January 1958 by special arrangement.

The first Hawker-Siddeley Trident jet was introduced in September 1969. In all, Cyprus Airways used five Trident jets, three of them acquired from BEA, but two units were destroyed in the wake of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the Turkish Air Force attack on Nicosia airport in July 1974 while the third unit had to be abandoned. All of the Cypriot airline's operations had to be suspended at that time.

Cyprus Airways was able to restart limited operations from Larnaca on 8 February 1975. In 1992, it established its wholly-owned charter subsidiary Eurocypria Airlines to obtain a greater share of the burgeoning inbound IT charter market to Cyprus. It founded Hellas Jet in Athens (Greece) in 2002, holding a 75% share of that carrier. Cyprus Airways is owned by the Government of Cyprus (69.62%) and private shareholders (30.38%).

[edit] Services

Services (as of March2007):

Larnaca to Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Beirut, Birmingham, Brussels, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Heraklion, Jeddah, London Heathrow, London Stansted, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Riyadh, Rome, Sofia, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Vienna and Zürich.
Paphos to Amsterdam, Athens, Birmingham, Frankfurt, London Heathrow and Luton.
Thessaloniki to Paris

Cyprus Airways Airbus A320-200

[edit] Fleet

The Cyprus Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (August 2006):^[1]

Cyprus Airways has a fleet age of roughly 3.8 years.(February 2007)

[edit] Livery

The Cyprus Airways livery is an all white fuselage, with the words Cyprus Airways in blue over the front passenger windows. The tail is all blue with a mouflon symbol, a type of wild sheep indigenous to Cyprus.