British Airways increasing number of flights to Cyprus

Following Cyprus Airways closure, British Airways announced an increase in the number of flights to Larnaca for its Summer 2015 schedule. BA will be flying 13 times a week from London’s Heathrow Terminal 5 to Larnaca (up from 7 times a week). Economy return ticket prices will start at 249 euro. British Airways will have […]

Blue Air now flying from Larnaca to Athens

Following the demise of Cyprus Airways, private airlines are attempting to fill in the void created and a grab a piece of the pie. Romanian budget airline Blue Air has added Larnaca Airport as one of its bases and immediately started daily morning flights to Athens. Additionally, from the 19th of January its service will […]

Work finally resuming at Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square

According to the contractor company that won the bid for Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square (Freedom Square), construction work is resuming tomorrow. The company’s executives with representatives of the architect visited and inspected the site and are ready to begin work. The company’s representative Mr Sotos Lois was optimistic in his statement saying that the bridge connecting […]

The final day for Cyprus Airways

As it was expected for a long while now, time is up for Cyprus Airways. According to local media, the announcement of the European Directorate General for Competition is coming out today and is expected to be negative. This essentially means that Cyprus Airways which has been in operation since 1947 will seize operations. 16 […]

Cyprus 2015 in Winter colours

The new year has kick-started winter in Cyprus, with an expected drop in temperature by 2 degrees in the next two days and rain storms in many areas. Snowfall in Troodos continues, where the temperature during the day today is at 2c. The police announced that due to frost, all roads to Troodos are only […]

Fuel prices not as low as they should have been

Even though the fuel prices in Cyprus have recently dropped, they still not as low as they should have been. According to today’s issue of Phileleftheros newspaper, the crude oil price has decreased by 39% since June 2014, during the same period the average price for petrol available to consumers in Cyprus has only dropped […]