With traffic to and from Paphos International Airport now reduced for good in terms of international flights due to the winter season, the institutions of the Paphos district bring back the problem of unsatisfactory accesses to the unit in order for the new tourist season to find the unit with a modern access and a first image of Cyprus worthy of its reputation.
The concern is evident among the officials of the province, since despite the continuous assurances and their own representations, neither the new, unfinished road for years seems to be heading towards completion, nor the old, existing road to be upgraded in a way that corresponds to the current conditions.
Both the authorities of the wider area around the airport and the institutional bodies of the province are now urgently raising the issue of either the immediate improvement of the existing road, or the Government intervening with the Department of Environment to make a final decision on whether or not to promote the new road.
The issue is already of concern to the parliamentary Committee on Transport, Communications and Works, since the five Paphos MPs all have a personal involvement in the issue, while according to our information they are already receiving intense pressure to change the current status of the old route, estimating that it is more likely that the project of upgrading the existing one will be implemented, rather than promoting the second part of the new road.
Embracing, in essence, this position, the member of the committee, Paphos MP Chrysanthos Savvides, said that the existing, old road that connects Paphos airport with Paphos through the community of Timi, must be upgraded immediately in order to meet even rudimentarily the current increased needs of tourism, but also of road traffic in the area. The study for the electrification of the existing road has already begun, while a master plan for its further improvement is also being promoted, after its official registration as a normal public road since it was only found in 2025, for decades this road was not officially registered, he stressed.
It is an immediate necessity to quickly promote the improvement works on this road axis, Mr. Savvides remarked, given that Paphos Airport has shown a huge increase in traffic in recent years and it is obvious to its users, but also to the residents of the communities in the area that the current condition of the road is anything but good for Paphos and its tourism.
We will push further in every direction for the improvement of this road, so that the extension of Paphos airport coincides at least with the noticeable improvement of the existing road, he concluded.
