With Cyprus Airways now reborn it was difficult to see how an island of this size could sustain two ‘flag carrier’ airlines so hopefully rather than cannibalise each other’s customer base at least one of them will emerge in a stronger position.
I flew CO a few times and they weren’t bad, although there is no online check in. This meant that traveling on a 20 min sector to Beirut from Larnaca even with hand luggage only involved standing in a check in queue with a packed Moscow flight for an hour, which was annoying.
Not a good time for smaller airlines right now.