Hemres Airports has announced that there will be new routes and more than 300,000 seats to be added to the winter season’s flight schedule. The 300,000 seats represents a nine percent increase compared to the 2018-2019 season.

Just six months after receiving the Level 3 ACA Certification, Hermes Airports acquired the fourth and highest level of the ACA Certification for Larnaca and Paphos airports, which relates to the provision of compensation for carbon dioxide emissions.

Hermes Airports signed a landmark commitment to become net zero for their carbon emissions by 2050.

Miltos Miltiadous, chief operating officer, Hermes Airports, has won the Cyprus Quality Leader of the Year 2018 award by the Cyprus Association for Quality, in recognition of his work on the promotion of quality within the organisation, and the wider airport community of Larnaca and Paphos airports.

On the basis of the results of the Cyprus Passengers Survey, 111,434 residents of Cyprus returned from a trip abroad in March compared to 102,260 in the corresponding month of 2018, recording an increase of nine percent.

In March there was an increase of 1,6 percent in the trips of residents to the UK (16,637 in March compared to 16,369 in March 2018) and 28 percent increase to Russia (6,358 to 4,967 in 2018).

A full-scale exercise was successfully completed on March 29 at Pafos International Airport, under the code name ‘Complete Terminal Evacuation’.