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Cyprus Airways (Greek: Κυπριακές Αερογραμμές,
Kipriakes Aerogrammes) is the national [airline of
Cyprus, based in Nicosia. It operates scheduled services to over 30 destinations in
Europe, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. Its main base is Larnaca International Airport, with a hub at
Paphos International AirportFlight International 3 April 2007.
History
Cyprus Airways was established on
24 September 1947 as a joint venture between the Cypriot Government,
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%) and has 1,220 employees (at March
2007).
Destinations
Services (as of March 2007):
- Larnaca to Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Beirut, Birmingham, Brussels, Henri Coandă International Airport, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Heraklion (1 flight operated by Eurocypria, 3 by Cyprus Airways), Jeddah, London Heathrow Airport, London Stansted Airport, London Gatwick (operated by Eurocypria), Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow, Paris, Riyadh, Rome, Sofia, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Vienna and Zürich.
- Paphos to Amsterdam, Athens, Birmingham, Frankfurt, London Heathrow Airport, London-Stansted, Manchester, Paris(operated by Eurocypria), Thessaloniki.
- Bahrain to Dubai
- Heraklion to Rhodes
- Thessaloniki to Paris
Discontinued Destinations
- Alexandria, Ankara, Baghdad, Budapest, Colombo, Geneva, Haifa, Istanbul, Khartoum via Wadi Halfa, Kuwait, Lydda, Warsaw (operates on code-share basis with LOT Polish Airlines.
Code-shared Destinations
- Amsterdam; code-shared with KLM, operated by Cyprus Airways aircraft and crew.
- Rome and Milan; code-shared with Alitalia, operated by Cyprus Airways aircraft and crew.
- Moscow; code-shared with Aeroflot, both partners operate.
- Bahrain; code-shared with Gulf Air, both partners operate.
- Damascus; code-shared with Syrian Arab Airlines, both partners operate.
- Brussels; code-shared with Brussels Airlines, operated by Cyprus Airways aircraft and crew
- Jeddah and Rihadh; code-shared with Saudi Arabian Airlines,operated by Cyprus Airways aircraft and crew.
- Amman, code-shared with Royal Jordanian, both partners operate.
- Athens, code-shared with Olympic Airlines, both partners operate.
- Kiev, code-sharing agreement with Aerosvit, operated by Aerosvit aircraft and crew.
- Warsaw, code-sharing agreement with LOT Polish Airlines, operated by LOT Polish Airlines aircraft and crew.
Dicontinued code sharing agreements:
- Tel Aviv - discontinued code share agreement with EL AL. Both partners operated until March 2007, when EL AL pulled out of Larnaca.
- New York JFK - code sharing agreement with Gulf Air in the 1990s, for direct flights between Larnaca LCA and New York JFK using Airbus A340-300 aircraft operated by Gulf Air. The agreement ended in the late 1990s, when Gulf Air pulled out of the service in favor of operating via Geneva to New York. Gulf Air eventually discontinued all trans-atlantic flights.
image:Cyprus.airways.a320.arp.750pix.jpg
Fleet
The Cyprus Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (at August 2007)
{|class="wikitable"! align="center | Aircraft! align="center" width="20pt" | #! align="center" | Passenger (Business/Economy)! align="center" | Routes|-| align="center" |
Airbus A320#A319| align="center" | 2| align="center" | 126 (12/114)|| Amman, Athens, Bahrain, Brussels, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Heraklion, Jeddah, Rhodes, Rome, Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Zurich.|-| align="center" | Airbus A320| align="center" | 7| align="center" | 158 (15/143)
156 (25/131)|| Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Birmingham, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Heraklion, Jeddah, London Heathrow, London Stansted, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Rhodes, Rome, Riyadh, Sofia, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Zurich|-| align="center" | Airbus A330| align="center" | 2| align="center" | 295 (30/265)|| London Heathrow, Paris, Amsterdam and sometimes Athens and Manchester|-| align="center" | Boeing 737
Operated by Eurocypria on behalf of Cyprus Airways| align="center" || align="center" | 189 (0/189)|| Heraklion, London Gatwick, Paris|}
Cyprus Airways has a fleet age of roughly 12.4 years (as of February 2007).. The A319 fleet has an average age of 5 years, the A320 an average age of 16.7 years and the A330 has an average age of 4.4 years.
- Past Fleet:
- Douglas DC-3
- Airspeed Elizabethan
- Vickers Viscount 806
- de Havilland Comet
- Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E and 1E
- BAC 1-11 500
- Douglas DC 9-15
- Douglas DC 8-52
- Douglas DC6B Freighter
- Bristol Britannia 253 CMK 1 Freighter
- Canadair CL44 D4-1 Freighter
- Boeing B707-123B
- Airbus A310-200
- Airbus A320 (part of the fleet retired)
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.
References
External links
- Cyprus Airways
- Cyprus Airways Fleet Detail
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Cyprus Airways (Greek: Κυπριακές Αερογραμμές,
Kipriakes Aerogrammes) is the national [airline of
Cyprus, based in Nicosia. It operates scheduled services to over 30 destinations in
Europe, the
Middle East and the
Persian Gulf. Its main base is Larnaca International Airport, with a hub at
Paphos International AirportFlight International 3 April 2007.
History
Cyprus Airways was established on
24 September 1947 as a joint venture between the Cypriot Government, 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%) and has 1,220 employees (at March
2007).
Destinations
Services (as of March
2007):
- Larnaca to Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Beirut, Birmingham, Brussels, Henri Coandă International Airport, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Heraklion (1 flight operated by Eurocypria, 3 by Cyprus Airways), Jeddah, London Heathrow Airport, London Stansted Airport, London Gatwick (operated by Eurocypria), Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow, Paris, Riyadh, Rome, Sofia, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Vienna and Zürich.
- Paphos to Amsterdam, Athens, Birmingham, Frankfurt, London Heathrow Airport, London-Stansted, Manchester, Paris(operated by Eurocypria), Thessaloniki.
- Bahrain to Dubai
- Heraklion to Rhodes
- Thessaloniki to Paris
Discontinued Destinations
- Alexandria, Ankara, Baghdad, Budapest, Colombo, Geneva, Haifa, Istanbul, Khartoum via Wadi Halfa, Kuwait, Lydda, Warsaw (operates on code-share basis with LOT Polish Airlines.
Code-shared Destinations
- Amsterdam; code-shared with KLM, operated by Cyprus Airways aircraft and crew.
- Rome and Milan; code-shared with Alitalia, operated by Cyprus Airways aircraft and crew.
- Moscow; code-shared with Aeroflot, both partners operate.
- Bahrain; code-shared with Gulf Air, both partners operate.
- Damascus; code-shared with Syrian Arab Airlines, both partners operate.
- Brussels; code-shared with Brussels Airlines, operated by Cyprus Airways aircraft and crew
- Jeddah and Rihadh; code-shared with Saudi Arabian Airlines,operated by Cyprus Airways aircraft and crew.
- Amman, code-shared with Royal Jordanian, both partners operate.
- Athens, code-shared with Olympic Airlines, both partners operate.
- Kiev, code-sharing agreement with Aerosvit, operated by Aerosvit aircraft and crew.
- Warsaw, code-sharing agreement with LOT Polish Airlines, operated by LOT Polish Airlines aircraft and crew.
Dicontinued code sharing agreements:
- Tel Aviv - discontinued code share agreement with EL AL. Both partners operated until March 2007, when EL AL pulled out of Larnaca.
- New York JFK - code sharing agreement with Gulf Air in the 1990s, for direct flights between Larnaca LCA and New York JFK using Airbus A340-300 aircraft operated by Gulf Air. The agreement ended in the late 1990s, when Gulf Air pulled out of the service in favor of operating via Geneva to New York. Gulf Air eventually discontinued all trans-atlantic flights.
image:Cyprus.airways.a320.arp.750pix.jpg
Fleet
The Cyprus Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (at August 2007)
{|class="wikitable"! align="center | Aircraft! align="center" width="20pt" | #! align="center" | Passenger (Business/Economy)! align="center" | Routes|-| align="center" |
Airbus A320#A319| align="center" | 2| align="center" | 126 (12/114)|| Amman, Athens, Bahrain, Brussels, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Heraklion, Jeddah, Rhodes, Rome, Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Zurich.|-| align="center" |
Airbus A320| align="center" | 7| align="center" | 158 (15/143)
156 (25/131)|| Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Birmingham, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Heraklion, Jeddah, London Heathrow, London Stansted, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Rhodes, Rome, Riyadh, Sofia, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Zurich|-| align="center" |
Airbus A330| align="center" | 2| align="center" | 295 (30/265)|| London Heathrow, Paris, Amsterdam and sometimes Athens and Manchester|-| align="center" | Boeing 737
Operated by Eurocypria on behalf of Cyprus Airways| align="center" || align="center" | 189 (0/189)|| Heraklion, London Gatwick, Paris|}
Cyprus Airways has a fleet age of roughly 12.4 years (as of February 2007).. The A319 fleet has an average age of 5 years, the A320 an average age of 16.7 years and the A330 has an average age of 4.4 years.
- Past Fleet:
- Douglas DC-3
- Airspeed Elizabethan
- Vickers Viscount 806
- de Havilland Comet
- Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E and 1E
- BAC 1-11 500
- Douglas DC 9-15
- Douglas DC 8-52
- Douglas DC6B Freighter
- Bristol Britannia 253 CMK 1 Freighter
- Canadair CL44 D4-1 Freighter
- Boeing B707-123B
- Airbus A310-200
- Airbus A320 (part of the fleet retired)
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.
References
External links
- Cyprus Airways
- Cyprus Airways Fleet Detail
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