Posts tagged with "Tymbou"

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, 20192727 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...
4 million people have used Tymbou airport so far this year Cyprus

4 million people have used Tymbou airport so far this year

December 15th, 20184039 Approximately four million passengers used Tymbou airport in the north between January and November this year, reports said on Saturday. According to daily Halkin Sesi, around 3.5 million passengers arrived in the north through scheduled flights at Tymbou airport, and 218,972 on chartered ones. Another 1,645 passengers flew by private...
Air ambulance makes direct flight to airport in north Cyprus

Air ambulance makes direct flight to airport in north

June 17th, 20184995 An air ambulance has made a direct flight from the north to Prague to take a sick Czech national home, ‘Foreign Minister’ Kudret Ozersay said on Sunday. According to Turkish Cypriot media, a special request was made to operate the flight by the ‘civil aviation department’ and shortly after noon the Czech national boarded the...
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, 20184357 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...
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, 20185549 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, 20177453 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, 20172911 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...
Abducted child returned to biological mother Cyprus

Abducted child returned to biological mother

November 4th, 20161973 A 17-month old girl allegedly abducted by the surrogate who gave birth was returned to her biological mother, it was revealed Friday. According to reports in the Turkish Cypriot press, little Sofia is back in the hands of her biological mother, Russian national Olga Mirimskaya, 55, after the surrogate mother, Svetlana Bezpiataia, 40,...
Greek Cypriot arrested in Istanbul airport with cocaine stash Cyprus

Greek Cypriot arrested in Istanbul airport with cocaine stash

September 27th, 20163178 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...
Four foreigners arrested at airport with fake ID (Updated) Cyprus

Four foreigners arrested at airport with fake ID (Updated)

August 25th, 20163586 Three people from Iran, a man aged 44, a 31-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, were remanded on Thursday for six days after they were arrested on Wednesday while attempting to travel from Larnaca airport to other European destinations with fake stolen papers. A 31-year-old man from Latvia was also remanded for four days in...
Controversial pupil trip to Turkey illegally awarded, audit service says featured

Controversial pupil trip to Turkey illegally awarded, audit service says

August 12th, 20162388 The education ministry unlawfully awarded a tender to a travel agent to organise a pupil trip to Turkey, the state audit service said on Friday, amid a continuing public debate over the decision to use an airline that also used an airport in the Turkish occupied north of the island. The audit service also revisited past claims that...
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, 20162480 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...
Inquiry launched after school trip used airline that flies to Tymbou Cyprus

Inquiry launched after school trip used airline that flies to Tymbou

August 9th, 20163439 The education ministry announced on Tuesday that an administrative inquiry has been ordered into how high school pupils ended up travelling with a Turkish airline that used Tymbou airport in the occupied north. The probe was ordered after daily Phileleftheros reported that pupils and teachers used Pegasus Airlines to fly to Trabzon,...
Our View: Paltry trade hardly a reason for sanctions Opinion

Our View: Paltry trade hardly a reason for sanctions

August 6th, 20162269 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...
Averof hits back at Tymbou claims Cyprus

Averof hits back at Tymbou claims

August 2nd, 20162084 Ruling DISY on Tuesday turned the tables on parties that charged the government has done nothing to stem the flow of traffic at Tymbou airport in the Turkish occupied north. Party chairman Averof Neophytou said those who issued statements on Monday about the airport were part of the (Tassos Papadopoulos) government that decided not to...
Bomb hoax aboard flight to the north – reports Cyprus

Bomb hoax aboard flight to the north – reports

April 11th, 20161644 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...
Kasoulides backtracks on Varosha-Tymbou exchange chatter Cyprus

Kasoulides backtracks on Varosha-Tymbou exchange chatter

June 8th, 20132101 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...
Turkish Cypriot side denies move for Tymbou-Varosha exchange Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot side denies move for Tymbou-Varosha exchange

June 6th, 20133338 By Stefanos Evripidou THE TURKISH Cypriot leadership has denied reports that the European Commission is trying to broker a deal between Greek Cypriots and Turkey to open the fenced off part of Famagusta to its lawful inhabitants in exchange for allowing direct flights to Tymbou (Ercan) airport in the breakaway north. There is...
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