Posts tagged with "Ercan"

MPs renew call for review of state’s compensation deal with Hermes Cyprus

MPs renew call for review of state’s compensation deal with Hermes

March 14th, 20193020 Lawmakers on Thursday again called for a review of a deal whereby the state compensates Hermes – the operator of the two international airports in the south – for revenues lost to Tymbou (Ercan) airport in the north. During a closed-doors session of the House watchdog committee, MPs heard that year in year out the state...
Call for review of Hermes deal with the state on Tymbou compensation Cyprus

Call for review of Hermes deal with the state on Tymbou compensation

April 20th, 20184457 By George Psyllides SINCE 2006, the state has paid €46m to airport operator Hermes as compensation for loss of revenue due to the operation of an airport in Tymbou (Ercan), in the Turkish-occupied northern part of the island, MPs heard Thursday. The issue was discussed in parliament with MPs and independent state officials...
Some 3.9m passengers used Tympou airport in the north in 2017 Cyprus

Some 3.9m passengers used Tympou airport in the north in 2017

March 16th, 20186444 Around 3.9 million passengers went through Ercan (Tympou) airport in the Turkish Cypriot north of the island in 2017, which saw some 27,000 flights. According to data obtained from transport authorities in northern Cyprus, 3,962,541 passengers used the airport in 2017, coming and going on 27,075 flights. Ercan saw 13,535 inbound...
Cyprus protests to the UN Turkish violations of air and maritime space Cyprus

Cyprus protests to the UN Turkish violations of air and maritime space

February 24th, 20185669 Cyprus has protested to the UN over Turkish violations of its air and maritime space in a letter addressed to the UN Secretary-General by Cyprus` Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In his letter, which circulated on Friday as an official UN document, Kornelios Korneliou encloses two separate annexes recording the...
More Turkish Cypriots opting to use Larnaca airport Cyprus

More Turkish Cypriots opting to use Larnaca airport

August 23rd, 20177623 The number of Turkish Cypriots who choose to use Larnaca airport over Ercan (Tymbou) in the north has increased by 30 per cent, daily Kibris reported on Wednesday. Turkish Cypriot tour operators who spoke to the paper said the reason for the increase was overpriced flights out of the north. A return ticket to Istanbul from Ercan...
Call for resignations in north amid corruption claims Cyprus

Call for resignations in north amid corruption claims

June 14th, 20172972 Two parties have called for the resignation of a Turkish Cypriot official responsible for transportation after claims that he forced a company to pay some $225,000 per month for the inspection of construction work at Tymbou (Ercan) airport, which could have been conducted for free, media reports in the north said. YDP and HP demanded...
Ercan airport continues to hamper flight safety, says minister Cyprus

Ercan airport continues to hamper flight safety, says minister

October 21st, 20164807 THE operation of the illegal Ercan airport in the north and the activities of the so-called control tower are preventing the development of aviation and flight safety in Cyprus, Transport Minister Marios Demetriades told conference delegates on Friday. In his address to the international conference on the impact of drones on aviation...
Greek Cypriot arrested in Istanbul airport with cocaine stash Cyprus

Greek Cypriot arrested in Istanbul airport with cocaine stash

September 27th, 20163248 A 36-year-old Greek-Cypriot man from Nicosia has been arrested at Istanbul airport allegedly with two and a half kilos of cocaine hidden in his baggage, drugs believe to be destined for Cyprus as he was due to continue his journey to Tymbou (Ercan) airport in the north. According to reports the man was apprehended after disembarking a...
Continued high risk in Nicosia FIR, Commissioner says Cyprus

Continued high risk in Nicosia FIR, Commissioner says

August 18th, 20163760 Recent finding by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) confirm the continued high risk in Nicosia Flight Information Region (FIR), due to the operation of the illegal airport in Tymbou, the European Commission has said. European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc, on behalf of the Commission, outlined this position in a...
Our View: Foreign ministry mandarins continues to trade in negativity Opinion

Our View: Foreign ministry mandarins continues to trade in negativity

August 14th, 20162257 FOR MANY years Cyprus’ foreign ministry posed as the diplomatic guard dog and defender of the Cyprus Republic. Its main policy objective was to safeguard the status of the Republic by, supposedly, ensuring that the internationally-recognised government of Cyprus was never questioned, undermined or downgraded. This policy, often,...
Students had no other option but to fly with Pegasus, says Kadis Cyprus

Students had no other option but to fly with Pegasus, says Kadis

August 10th, 20162528 THE flight from Istanbul to Trabzon was only available from Turkish airlines also flying to and from the illegal ‘Ercan’ airport near Tymbou in the Turkish-occupied north, Education Minister Costas Kadis said on Wednesday. He was responding to a public outcry sparked a day earlier by a Foreign Ministry letter inquiring about the...
Our View: Paltry trade hardly a reason for sanctions Opinion

Our View: Paltry trade hardly a reason for sanctions

August 6th, 20162321 THE data released by JCC, the company administering credit card payments, was very revealing as it put into context the angry statements of the last week about the use of Ercan/Tymbou airport by Greek Cypriots. Citing the large number of passengers that used Ercan in 2015 (between 3.5 and 4 million) some parties had called for sanctions...
Our View: Uncompromising patriotism on centre parties keeps amusing Opinion

Our View: Uncompromising patriotism on centre parties keeps amusing

August 3rd, 20162549 THE WAY the parties of the so-called centre find excuses to churn out their hard-line Cyprus problem rhetoric is quite amusing. They are constantly in ‘knee-jerk reaction mode’, searching for a peg that would allow them to go on yet another rant advertising their uncompromising patriotism. The latest opportunity was provided by an...
Bomb hoax aboard flight to the north – reports Cyprus

Bomb hoax aboard flight to the north – reports

April 11th, 20161709 Three passengers on board the Turkish airline Pegasus on a flight from Istanbul to Tymbou (Ercan) airport in the north were arrested on Sunday evening by Turkish Cypriot police after they claimed there was a bomb on the plane, reports from the north said on Monday, according to the Cyprus News Agency. According to Yeni Dizen, the...
State seeks €27 million from Hermes Cyprus

State seeks €27 million from Hermes

December 9th, 20141670 By George Psyllides The state is claiming €27 million from airports operator Hermes, which the company withheld over the past few years, as compensation for loss of revenue due to the operation of an airport in the Turkish-occupied northern part of the island. In 2002 when the state issued the conditions of the tender for a...
Increased noise from flights over Nicosia only temporary Cyprus

Increased noise from flights over Nicosia only temporary

October 12th, 20141686 By Constantinos Psillides A DRAMATIC increase in the number of flights heard flying over northern Nicosia is down to the temporary suspension of a ground air-control system at Tymbou (Ercan) airport in the north, the Republic’s civil aviation department (DCA) has said. With its own airport out of action since 1974, Nicosia is...
Deep Purple on BA flight to Ercan (updated) Cyprus

Deep Purple on BA flight to Ercan (updated)

May 24th, 20142814 Deep Purple on BA flight to Ercan By Constantinos Psillides DEEP Purple, the legendary rock band, have arrived in Cyprus amid further controversy after  they charted a British Airways plane that landed at Ercan airport, which is not internationally recognised. According to the Turkish Daily Sabah website, this is the first time...
Kasoulides backtracks on Varosha-Tymbou exchange chatter Cyprus

Kasoulides backtracks on Varosha-Tymbou exchange chatter

June 8th, 20132175 By Stefanos Evripidou FOREIGN MINISTER Ioannis Kasoulides yesterday appeared to backtrack from earlier comments on a possible deal with Turkey to open up the fenced off town of Famagusta in exchange for the operation of international flights to and from ‘Ercan’ airport in the occupied village of Tymbou. In an interview with...
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