updated Mon. December 11, 2023
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Cyprus Mail
April 20, 2018
In 2002 when the state issued the conditions of the tender for a strategic investor to take over Larnaca and Paphos airports, it had pledged that it would not create a third airport. But the opening of the crossing points linking the island's divided communities in 2003 changed the state of play. The conditionÃâà...
The Sun
April 14, 2018
A MISSILE alert warning was issued to pilots flying into and out of Cyprus and other countries near Syria last week. Air traffic control chiefs warned airlines they may be caught in military strikes as tensions mount between the US and Russia – with the UK joining coalition strikes on the Assad regime.
The Independent
April 11, 2018
During past conflicts close to Cyprus, flights in and out of the island have continued as normal; indeed at times British Airways has based flight crews in Larnaca, the main airport, to operate “shuttle” flights to Middle East. While there is no absolute guarantee that your flight will take place, Ryanair tells me:Ãâà...
The Independent
April 11, 2018
More than 20 flights are due to take off from the UK to Cyprus on Wednesday. British Airways has two daily services from Heathrow to Larnaca, as well as a flight from Gatwick to Paphos. Ryanair has a departure from Stansted to Paphos, while easyJet flies to the island's two airports from Bristol, Edinburgh,Ãâà...
Cyprus Mail
April 10, 2018
Lufthansa had said that it was cancelling more than 800 of its planned 1,600 flights on Tuesday and Frankfurt airport operator Fraport had warned of disruption. As well as Frankfurt, Germany's busiest hub for airlines, airports in Munich, Cologne and Bremen were hit. The industrial action also affectedÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
March 29, 2018
Taxi drivers at Larnaca airport prematurely ended a strike on Thursday, also agreeing to suspend any measures over the next three weeks as the government looks into their demands. The cabbies terminated their action at around noon as a gesture of good will ahead of a meeting with the transport ministerÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
March 28, 2018
Shuttles currently operate to Larnaca and Paphos airports to and from Nicosia and also from Larnaca airport to Paphos airport. According to head of the ... As of now and sadly for many tourists , their first experience of 'Cyprus Hospitality' is being ripped off on their way to their hotels. For taxi drivers to evenÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
March 3, 2018
It also snarled transportation from the Middle Atlantic into New England, with more than a quarter of flights into and out of New York's three major airports and Boston's airport canceled, according to tracking service FlightAware.com. One flight landing at Washington's Dulles International Airport came inÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
March 3, 2018
Airports reopened and public transport began to grind back into service on Saturday after the worst snowstorms in nearly 30 years caused two days of major disruption in Britain and shut most of Ireland. A blast of Siberian cold dubbed “the Beast from the East” combined with Storm Emma's arrival from theÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
March 3, 2018
New York's LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports halted most flights due to high winds on Friday afternoon. More than a quarter of flights into and out of New York's three major airports and Boston's airport were canceled, according to tracking service Flightaware.com. Passenger railroad Amtrak haltedÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
March 1, 2018
Britain's two busiest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick, both said that flights would be cancelled. Police in Lincolnshire, eastern England, said that all roads were impassable. More than 150 flights were cancelled at Dublin airport. Britain's Met Office warned that freezing rain was likely across southernÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
February 28, 2018
A 33-year-old man was sentenced by the Larnaca criminal court on Tuesday to nine years in prison after admitting to the smuggling of 14 kilos of cannabis to Cyprus with the aim of supplying others. The man, Savvas Kartambis, was arrested last July at Larnaca airport on his arrival from Brussels after theÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
February 12, 2018
All flights to and from London's City Airport were cancelled on Monday after an unexploded World War Two bomb weighing half a tonne was found buried in silt in the River Thames. Police said they expected the bomb at George V Dock in east London would be removed by early Tuesday, having set up aÃâà...
TTG
December 31, 1999
From Palma in Majorca in the western Med to Cyprus in the east, and most points in between, airports have seen their previous passenger-number ... One Mediterranean airport to suffer an immediate impact from Monarch's collapse was Gibraltar, which saw its traffic slump by around 30% in the final threeÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
December 31, 1999
Rome's Fiumicino airport was forced to operate with only one runway during the night, when 10 cm (4 inches) of snow fell in less than four hours. ... Most of Italy's other main airports were open, albeit with flight delays. ... Roads were blocked while flights in and out of Sofia Airport were cancelled. Schools inÃâà...
