Cyprus Airways
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Just for info. As is their right, the mods have combined two separate threads which were running. That accounts for the seemingly odd continuity of some of the above posts.
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Why have CY been picked on?
What about AF and AZ for a start, which have been the beneficiaries of state/EU support?
A great shame for Cyprus and yet another blow to its pride struck by the dictatorship of the Evil Union.
What about AF and AZ for a start, which have been the beneficiaries of state/EU support?
A great shame for Cyprus and yet another blow to its pride struck by the dictatorship of the Evil Union.
More recently, the "troika" imposed stringent bailout conditions on Greece, Ireland and Portugal, but not on the much bigger Italy and Spain.
Cyprus being the smallest was clobbered the hardest. Didn't they raid peoples' bank accounts there?
It's the ludicrous single market that makes state aid illegal. Regretably, that was the final nail in the coffin for CY.
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Sadly a dream is lost... history remains and it will remain forever !
Cyprus Airways
Announcement
Nicosia
9 January 2015
Dear Passengers,
Following the adverse decision of the European Commission for Competition, issued today, on the application of the Republic of Cyprus of a Restructuring Plan for Cyprus Airways (Public) Ltd submitted in October 2013, the Board of Directors of Cyprus Airways has decided to initiate the procedure for voluntary liquidation and to that effect all necessary measures will be taken.
In the context of the above decision all operations of the company will be suspended as of the close of business today.
Cyprus Airways would like to warmly thank the millions of passengers who flew with the airline over the years, for their choice and support. Special thanks are also expressed to the staff of the airline as well as its associates, whose professionalism and dedication were always at the service of the passengers.
We are extremely honoured to have made a valuable contribution, over the last 68 years, to the development of the economy of Cyprus and its tourism industry in particular. We have flown the flag of our country worldwide with pride.
The government of Cyprus announced that it has decided to offer alternative arrangements to all passengers who have Cyprus Airways tickets. The cost of all alternative arrangements will be undertaken by the Republic.
The affected passengers of Cyprus Airways, who have arranged their travel with departure days up to and until 9/2/2015, can immediately contact the travel agency Top Kinisis Travel Public at the national telephone number 77787878, or if they are calling from overseas at the telephone number
+357 22869999, in order to arrange for the issuance of a new flight ticket. For the remaining passengers, with departure date from 10/2/2015 and onwards, a new announcement will be made in the coming days.
Additional information will be given for the arrangements that are made and/or other useful information for the passengers, on the website of the travel agency TOP KINISIS TRAVEL PUBLIC LTD.
Thank you.
Announcement
Nicosia
9 January 2015
Dear Passengers,
Following the adverse decision of the European Commission for Competition, issued today, on the application of the Republic of Cyprus of a Restructuring Plan for Cyprus Airways (Public) Ltd submitted in October 2013, the Board of Directors of Cyprus Airways has decided to initiate the procedure for voluntary liquidation and to that effect all necessary measures will be taken.
In the context of the above decision all operations of the company will be suspended as of the close of business today.
Cyprus Airways would like to warmly thank the millions of passengers who flew with the airline over the years, for their choice and support. Special thanks are also expressed to the staff of the airline as well as its associates, whose professionalism and dedication were always at the service of the passengers.
We are extremely honoured to have made a valuable contribution, over the last 68 years, to the development of the economy of Cyprus and its tourism industry in particular. We have flown the flag of our country worldwide with pride.
The government of Cyprus announced that it has decided to offer alternative arrangements to all passengers who have Cyprus Airways tickets. The cost of all alternative arrangements will be undertaken by the Republic.
The affected passengers of Cyprus Airways, who have arranged their travel with departure days up to and until 9/2/2015, can immediately contact the travel agency Top Kinisis Travel Public at the national telephone number 77787878, or if they are calling from overseas at the telephone number
+357 22869999, in order to arrange for the issuance of a new flight ticket. For the remaining passengers, with departure date from 10/2/2015 and onwards, a new announcement will be made in the coming days.
Additional information will be given for the arrangements that are made and/or other useful information for the passengers, on the website of the travel agency TOP KINISIS TRAVEL PUBLIC LTD.
Thank you.
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@ ATC Watcher
Agree entirely the Comet was G-ARCO in 1967 and the skipper, if my memory does not fail me, was Capt Blackburn. A very nice guy. As far as I remember the bomb was put o/b by a maintenance rep in LHR. I don't recall who was targeted but he wasn't on the flight stop.
At that time I was working for BEA in LBG.
Agree entirely the Comet was G-ARCO in 1967 and the skipper, if my memory does not fail me, was Capt Blackburn. A very nice guy. As far as I remember the bomb was put o/b by a maintenance rep in LHR. I don't recall who was targeted but he wasn't on the flight stop.
At that time I was working for BEA in LBG.
FlamantRose, I am writing a book on this loss. Can you point me in the direction of the source of the info about the engineer planting the bomb? I hadn't heard that theory.
@ ATC Watcher
Agree entirely the Comet was G-ARCO in 1967 and the skipper, if my memory does not fail me, was Capt Blackburn. A very nice guy. As far as I remember the bomb was put o/b by a maintenance rep in LHR. I don't recall who was targeted but he wasn't on the flight stop.
At that time I was working for BEA in LBG.
Agree entirely the Comet was G-ARCO in 1967 and the skipper, if my memory does not fail me, was Capt Blackburn. A very nice guy. As far as I remember the bomb was put o/b by a maintenance rep in LHR. I don't recall who was targeted but he wasn't on the flight stop.
At that time I was working for BEA in LBG.
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...co-1967-a.html
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In the days that I used to handle CY flights the thing that struck me was the easy life the crews had. For any other airline UK to Cyprus and back was a normal day, but CY was always a crew change and the flightdeck would fly back to Cyprus on the aircraft they brought but in as passengers!
