Cyprus Airways made finally the big step. They confront the crisis by letting customers without flights!!!
They have unilaterally and without any notice cancelled the only flight
from Pafos Airport to Athens. What that is actually mean. It means that
all the Cypriots who live in the area of Paphos including Limassol
(more than 200,000) in order to fly to Athens need to go to Larnaca
Airport. Larnaca Airport is small, old and 1h20min drive from Paphos
and 1 hour from Limassol. Pafos Airport is only 30 mins drive from
Limassol and 15 from any point in Pafos. Now, this means more expense
on fuel for the passengers since they have to drive to Larnaca, more
environmental impact and more uncomfortable situations form some
hundreds of travellers and some hundreds of students. The flights to
Paphos were always full. I have personally taken this flight 3 times in
the past 6 months and members of my family approximately 10 times and
it has always been more than 80%.
Well as from today Cyprus
airways looks to me as Cyprus far-aways . They are monopoly, government
owned and run, they are the main reason why other airlines do not land
in Cyprus and all these makes them champions of Tourism Killers. The
passengers from Greece increase and they decrease flights. So as a
conclusion I ask Aegean Airlines to bid for Cyprus Far-aways, I ask
Lufthansa Group to take over the airline and develop its potential
since the local management are incapable to see opportunities and
develop locally.
I suggest that we protect ourselves from this
kind of companies that make life harder, economy worse and at the same
time stop progress.