Eurocypria
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| IATA code : | UI |
| ICAO code : | ECA |
| Call sign : | EUROCYPRIA |
| Founding: | 1991 |
| Operation stopped: | 2010 |
| Seat: |
Larnaka , Cyprus
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| Home airport : | Larnaca Airport |
| Company form: | Ltd |
| Management: | Eleftherios Ioannou |
| Passenger volume: | 0.8 million |
| Fleet size: | 6th |
| Aims: | Continental |
| Eurocypria ceased operations in 2010. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Eurocypria was a Republic of Cyprus- owned airline based at Larnaca Airport .
history
Eurocypria was founded on June 12, 1991 as a subsidiary of Cyprus Airways to act as a holiday airline to Western Europe. The company was the first charter airline in the Republic of Cyprus .
The flight service began on March 25, 1992 with two leased aircraft of the type Airbus A320 , which were taken over by the parent company. The company operated IT charter flights for various tour operators and initially set up 17 direct connections between Europe and the Republic of Cyprus. In April 1993 and March 2001, Eurocyria took over another A320 each. As part of a modernization, the fleet was completely renewed from 2003 and the existing A320s were replaced by Boeing 737-800s .
In 2003 the airline carried 500,178 passengers.
The company was also socially committed, for example, some flights were held as a charity event for Cypriot children.
As part of a restructuring measure, Cyprus Airways sold Eurocypria in June 2006 for 13,450,000.00 Cyprus pounds (€ 23.4 million) to the Cypriot state. Both airlines now belonged to Cyprus, but they have been competitors since the sale.
In November 2010 it was announced that the government would dissolve Eurocypria after the EU had not allowed a merger with Cyprus Airways and the state could not maintain two competing airlines. Eurocypria filed for bankruptcy on November 4th. The airline has stopped operating since November 13th.
aims
Eurocypria started from bases in Larnaka and Paphos in the Republic of Cyprus. In the winter months they had two other bases in Crete and in Sharm el-Sheikh . Eurocypria said it operated flights to and from over 70 airports in 20 countries. In Germany, there were flights to Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich, among others.
fleet
Before flight operations ceased, the Eurocypria fleet consisted of six aircraft as of January 2010:
- Name and color scheme
The main feature of the Eurocypria fleet was that although each of the aircraft had the same logo on the vertical stabilizer , the background color was different for each. In addition, the machines are named after the typical winds from Greek mythology :
- Euros (tail in green): means southeast wind
- Notos (tail unit in purple): means south winds
- Zephyros (tail unit in dark blue): means warm humid wind from the west in spring
- Levante (tail unit in light blue): means warm east wind in autumn
- Maistros (tail unit in gray): means northwest wind
- Grecos (tail unit in white): means northeast wind
See also
Web links
- Eurocypria website (English)
- European Commission press release approving Cyprus Airways' restructuring plan
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ touristik-aktuell.com: Eurocypria: Cyprus Airways steps in ( memento of the original from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (German) November 8, 2010
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch: Fleet of the Eurocypria ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. January 31, 2010
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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