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Cyprus Airways
IATA CY	ICAO CYP	Callsign CYPRUS
Founded		1947
Hubs		Larnaca International Airport
Focus cities		Paphos International Airport
Frequent flyer program		SunMiles
Member lounge		Executive Lounge
Fleet size		10
Destinations		28 in 26 Cities and 19 countries
Parent company		Cyprus Airways Public Ltd.
Headquarters		Nicosia, Cyprus
Key people		Kikis N. Lazarides (CEO)
Website: http://www.cyprusairways.com

Cyprus Airways (Greek: Κυπριακές Αερογραμμές, Kipriakes Aerogrammes Turkish: Kıbrıs Hava Yolları ) is the national airline of Cyprus, based in Nicosia. It operates scheduled services to over 30 destinations in Europe, the Middle East and the Gulf. Its main base is Larnaca International Airport, with a hub at Paphos International Airport^[1].

Contents 1 History 2 Destinations 3 Fleet 4 Livery 5 SunMiles 6 Services 7 References 8 External links

Cyprus Airways was established on 24 September 1947 as a joint venture between the Cypriot Government, BEA (British European Airways) and private interests^[2]. Operations commenced on 18 April 1948 with Douglas DC-3 aircraft on regional routes from Nicosia International Airport. 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. 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)^[1].

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Services (as of March 2007):

• Larnaca to Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Beirut, Birmingham, Brussels, Bucharest Otopeni, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Heraklion (1 flight operated by Eurocypria, 3 by Cyprus Airways), Jeddah, London Heathrow, London Stansted, London Gatwick Airport (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, 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.

The Cyprus Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (at August 2007)[1]

Aircraft	#	Passenger (Business/Economy)	Routes
Airbus A319-100	2	126 (12/114)	Amman, Athens, Bahrain, Brussels, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Heraklion, Jeddah, Rhodes, Rome, Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Zurich.
Airbus A320-200	7	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
Airbus A330-200	2	295 (30/265)	London Heathrow, Paris, Amsterdam and sometimes Athens and Manchester
Boeing 737-800 Operated by Eurocypria on behalf of Cyprus Airways		189 (0/189)	Heraklion, London Gatwick, Paris

Cyprus Airways has an average fleet age of 12.4 years (as of February 2007).^{[citation needed]}. The A319 fleet has an average age of 5 years, the A320 fleet an average age of 16.7 years and the A330 fleet 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

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.

SunMiles is Cyprus Airways' frequent flyer program. There are 4 tiers of membership: Student, Regular, Premier and Elite.

Cyprus Airways offers travel in economy (Aphrodite class Y) and business class (Apollo class C). Apollo class passengers have access to the Sunjet executive lounge at Larnaca Airport.

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