New carrier offers €99 flights to Stansted

CYPRUS is to have another scheduled service to London, as low-cost flyglobespan offers seats from Larnaca to Stansted for only €99 per person one-way including taxes from April.

Initially, the flyglobespan web-based service will operate on Sundays and Mondays only, but from May 29 that will expand into a six day a week programme, with flights every day except Thursdays.

The latest development brings to three the new airlines starting or expanding Cyprus-UK routes this year. Both Monarch Airlines and XL Airways will launch tri-weekly flights to Larnaca from London Luton as of Tuesday.

XL will also base an aircraft in Larnaca in order to expand its programme of Cyprus flights across the UK this summer, the airline said.

A statement from flyglobespan said the airline was already known to many Cyprus travellers. The company has been flying from Paphos to Glasgow for the past two summers and will resume that route with a twice weekly service in April

In addition, this May they launch a new weekly service from Paphos to another Scottish city, Aberdeen – as part of an expanded summer 2007 campaign.

The new Larnaca-Stansted service means that flyglobespan will be offering Cypriots a variety of low cost travel to the UK.

Larnaca will become the 30th overseas destination available from flyglobespan.

“This is another exciting new route from flyglobespan,” said chairman Tom Dalrymple. “There is a huge Cypriot community in London and a lot of traffic between there and Cyprus.

“I am pleased we can offer them the chance to travel at such attractive fares.”

Flyglobespan launched in April 2002. It is one of Britain’s fastest growing airlines and was voted Airline of the Year by Scottish BAA last year. It is a subsidiary of The Globespan Group Plc a wholly owned British company established in 1974.

n Bookings can be made at www.flyglobespan.com.

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