Cyprus Airways, the flag carrier of Cyprus, will start flying between its base in Larnaca to Barcelona. Connections will be twice-weekly, flown with the airline’s Airbus A220-300. The new flight was loaded in Cirium’s Diio Mi application latest weekend schedule update.
The route is already on sale in Cyprus Airways’ sales channels, with the first flight being operated on July 3, 2024 and frequencies on Wednesdays and Sundays. The airline’s A220-300s are configured with 122 seats — twelve in Business class, in a 2-2 set-up, and 110 in Economy, in the aircraft’s traditional 2-3 setting.
In a press release published on his LinkedIn profile, CEO Paul Sies also revealed the airline will start flying to two other destinations from Larnaca from next Summer, namely Brussels and Geneva. In total, the airline says its Summer 2024 schedule will offer 40% more seats than the previous Summer season.
A connection between Larnaca and Barcelona was operated on Summer 2023, with a weekly frequency by Vueling from July to mid-September. There are no other nonstop flights between Spain and Cyprus for the time being.
Cyprus Airways’ connection, meanwhile, is on sale through October 20 — the airline is only selling tickets through late October –, although on Cirium it has flights running through late November, the last available month in the application’s schedules.
Cyprus Airways currently operate a fleet of two Airbus A320 and two A220-300, according to data by Planespotters.net, with another two of the latter arriving before the Summer season. By 2028, Sies told Aviation Week Network in June, it intends to have a fleet of twelve A220s.
In terms of seats and departures offered to and from the city in 2023, the airline is the third-largest in Larnaca, according to Cirium. As a large proportion of its flights is short, by ASKs it is the seventh-largest.
