From Cyprus Airways to Cyprus Far-aways

Cyprus Airways made finally the big step. They confront the crisis by letting customers without flights!!! They have unilaterally and without any notice cancelled the only flight from Pafos Airport to Athens. What that is actually mean. It means that all the Cypriots who live in the area of Paphos including Limassol (more than 200,000) in order to fly to Athens need to go to Larnaca Airport. Larnaca Airport is small, old and 1h20min drive from Paphos and 1 hour from Limassol. Pafos Airport is only 30 mins drive from Limassol and 15 from any point in Pafos. Now, this means more expense on fuel for the passengers since they have to drive to Larnaca, more environmental impact and more uncomfortable situations form some hundreds of travellers and some hundreds of students. The flights to Paphos were always full. I have personally taken this flight 3 times in the past 6 months and members of my family approximately 10 times and it has always been more than 80%.

Well as from today Cyprus airways looks to me as Cyprus far-aways . They are monopoly, government owned and run, they are the main reason why other airlines do not land in Cyprus and all these makes them champions of Tourism Killers. The passengers from Greece increase and they decrease flights. So as a conclusion I ask Aegean Airlines to bid for Cyprus Far-aways, I ask Lufthansa Group to take over the airline and develop its potential since the local management are incapable to see opportunities and develop locally.

I suggest that we protect ourselves from this kind of companies that make life harder, economy worse and at the same time stop progress. Welcome Stelios … welcome easyjet … see here for more details, welcome freedom.