New colours for Cyprus Airways

CYPRUS Airways (CY) yesterday showed off its new colours, having repainted one of the three Airbus A320s it had leased to its charter arm Eurocypria and now reclaimed.

The new-look CY, in mostly blue and white, with less ochre than the remainder of the fleet. It places a bigger emphasis on the word Cyprus and less on the word Airways. The national carrier’s symbol, the moufflon maintains pride of place on the tail fin and the Cyprus flag is on the nose of the aircraft.

When CY takes delivery of a new 126-seater Airbus A319 at the end of April and another at the end of June, the planes will also be displaying the new designs.

CY will also take delivery of two 295-seater Airbus A330s, one by the end of this year and a second in the beginning of 2003.

Spokesman Tassos Angelis said yesterday that all the new aircraft would come directly from the Airbus plant in France complete with the new design. The existing aircraft with the old design will be revamped at a later stage, he said.

The new A319s will be named Nikokli and Halkanor, after two ancient kings of Paphos and Idalion while the two A330’s will be named Ammochostos and Kyrenia, after the two areas under Turkish occupation.

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