Filenews 9 May 2022
Hermes Airports presents the new summer flight schedule to and from Larnaka and Paphos airports, which marks the return to many different connections to and from Cyprus. Based on the current schedule, the summer season shows positive signs with airlines planning a significant number of flights.
Specifically, this summer, 50 airlines will operate flights to and from Larnaka and Paphos airports, with 140 routes, including five new ones, from 95 destinations in 38 countries.
It is worth noting that passenger traffic in April of this year recorded a significant improvement reaching 85% of the corresponding month of 2019. In total, for the period from 1 January to 30 April 2022, to and from Larnaka and Paphos airports, despite losses from Russia and Ukraine, a total of 1,587,337 passengers travelled with the largest share of passenger traffic in April 2022 coming from the United Kingdom and Greece, Germany, Israel, Poland, Austria and Italy.
Five new routes and eight coming back
New destinations such as Pisa (with Ryanair), Salzburg (with Eurowings), Bern (with Helvetic), Nuremberg (with Correndon) and Jeddah (Cyprus Airways) are part of the flight schedule to and from Larnaca and Paphos airports. In addition to the five routes that start, eight more are coming back after two years. Specifically, the itineraries include flights from the United Kingdom, Norwich (TUI) and Belfast (Jet2) to Paphos, from Denmark, Albork (Jet time) to Larnaca, from Norway, Trondheim and Stavanger (SunClass) to Larnaca and flights from Sweden, Norseping (Jet time), Orebro and Vexie Cronomberg (Sunclass), all to Larnaca.
New flights on existing routes
In addition, EasyJet has added a new route from Paris and Charles De Gaulle to Larnaca, with 2 weekly flights.
Wizzair flies from Gatwick to Larnaca with 10 flights per week, while also adding the Larnaca-Cardiff route with two weekly flights. In addition, the airline starts the route Larnaca-Yerevan with two flights every week.
Eurowings starts flights from Prague, with two weekly flights to Larnaca, while at the same time, two flights a week will be operated from Stockholm, Arlanda to Larnaca.
Jet2 adds 2 flights a week from Bristol, both from Larnaca and Paphos.
Ryanair starts flights from Newcastle to Paphos with 2 weekly flights.
Cyprus Airways adds Larnaca-Cairo route
Correndon presents the Route Larnaca- Düsseldorf
TUS Airways has added the Larnaca-Paris route.
In a statement, Maria Kouroupi, Senior Director of Aviation Development and Communication at Hermes Airports, said: "Undoubtedly, the country's connectivity remains at the heart of our strategy. We are working with all the airlines to fully restore, but also to further develop their network to the levels they operated before - coronavirus. This year's flight schedule confirms the confidence shown by airlines in Cyprus as a destination, since their flight schedules for existing and new routes have been largely restored. The efforts made in previous years to diversify the program by expanding to other markets have come to fruition. More than ever before, it is important for the entire tourism industry to seize these opportunities and support demand in order to build a strong foundation for the future."
