* 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca, Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague, Czech Republic crashes near Athens, with at least 121 on board.

Cyprus Airways has its head offices in the entrance of Makariou Avenue.

The assassination and the hijacking of a Cyprus Airways DC-8 at Larnaca Airport led to the Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport by Egyptian forces.

In 1962, the airline took delivery of two Boeing 720s, becoming the third Middle Eastern airline to fly jet aircraft, after Cyprus Airways with the de Havilland Comet in 1960 and El Al with the Boeing 707 in 1961.

Cyprus Airways Public Limited (, Kypriakés Aerogrammés, is the national airline of Cyprus, a public limited company with its head offices located in the capital of the island, Nicosia.

The airline was established on 24 September 1947 as a joint venture between the colonial government of Cyprus, BEA ( British European Airways ), and private interests.

The continuing sector from Athens to Nicosia was operated by BEA under charter to Cyprus Airways.

It also decided to sell all the Douglas DC-3 and Auster aircraft in September 1957 and enter into a five-year agreement with BEA for the latter to operate services on behalf of Cyprus Airways.

BEA took over the operation of all Cyprus Airways services effective 26 January 1958 by special arrangement.

Cyprus Airways still relied on the U. K. airline for aircraft.

Cyprus Airways with the introduction of the Comets became the first airline in the middle east to have jet airplanes.

The Comets flew in the BEA livery, but had the Cyprus Airways logo and title affixed above their doors.

At the start of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, the attack on Nicosia airport caught all five of Cyprus Airways aircraft on the ground.

That aircraft returned to Cyprus Airways in 1978 and served with the company until 1995.

The government of Cyprus then moved quickly to build a small terminal by a runway in Larnaca and Cyprus Airways restarted limited operations from there on 8 February 1975. The airline leased Viscount turboprops to fly a stripped down route network to a few key cities in the region: Beirut, Tel Aviv, and Athens via Heraklion, with connections to London on British Airways.

Cyprus Airways leased a pair of DC-9 jets in August 1975 to resume its own flights to London ( via Salonika ).

Airbus A310-200 of Cyprus Airways at Zurich Airport in 1985

Cyprus Airways was one of the first airlines to operate the Airbus A310, the eighth airline in the world to receive the Airbus A320, and the first airline that launched the IAE V2500 engine along with Adria Airways.

Royal Wings now operates an Airbus A320-212 aircraft on both scheduled and charter services to destinations in Egypt, Cyprus and Israel.

Cyprus made a transition to Airbus aircraft over the course of the decade.

It leases Boeing and Airbus aircraft to major airlines worldwide, including Aeroméxico, Air Canada, Asiana Airlines, Korean Air, Cathay Pacific, Cyprus Airways, Air France-KLM, Lufthansa, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Air India, United Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Pakistan International Airlines, Emirates, Gulf Air and most recently, Delta Air Lines.

Three of its former Airbus A320s were transferred and operated by Cyprus Airways.

It started operations using a wet-leased Airbus A320 on 14 May 1992 with a flight to Ercan in Cyprus.

Some were diverted ( e. g. to the RAF airfield on Cyprus ), and one B-24 with 365 shell holes in it landed in Libya 14 hours after departing ..

As of January 2011, the Branches are in: Adelaide ; Auckland ; Bedford ; Belfast ; Birmingham ; Boscombe Down ; Brisbane ; Bristol ; Brough ; Brussels ; Cambridge ; Canberra ; Cardiff ; Chester ; Christchurch ; Christchurch, NZ ; Coventry ; Cranfield ; Cranwell ; Cyprus ; Derby ; Dublin ; FAA Yeovilton ; Farnborough ; Gatwick ; Gloucester and Cheltenham ; Hamburg ; Hamilton ; Hatfield ; Heathrow ; Highland ; Hong Kong ; Isle of Man ; Isle of Wight ; Loughborough ; Malaysia ; Manchester ; Marham ; Medway ; Melbourne ; Montreal ; Munich ; Oxford ; Palmerston North ; Paris ; Perth ; Preston ; Prestwick ; Riyadh ; Seattle ; Singapore ; Solent ; Southend ; Stevenage ; Swindon ; Sydney ; Toulouse ; UAE ; Washington DC ; Wellington ; Weybridge ; Xiamen ; and Yeovil.

* 1922: By this time, the Bank of Athens had branches throughout Greece, as well as in Limassol and Nicosia in Cyprus, Alexandria, Cairo, and Port Said in Egypt, Galata, Stamboul and Pera in Constantinople, and London and Manchester in England.

Over the next few years scheduled routes to Cyprus from Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Newcastle were introduced.

*‘ Cyprus under Britain ’, Manchester Guardian ( 13 August 1954 ).

As a new charter airline, Excel concentrated on flights from Gatwick and Manchester to holiday destinations including Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Spain, the Canaries, St Lucia and Egypt.

* 1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities.

Haifa Airport serves domestic flights to Tel Aviv and Eilat as well as international charters to Cyprus, and Jordan.

* The IATA airport code for Nicosia International Airport, an abandoned airport near Nicosia in Cyprus

* Ercan International Airport ( IATA airport code ), Cyprus

* On 21 December 1961, de Havilland Comet 4B G-ARJM operating on behalf of Cyprus Airways from London to Tel Aviv stalled during takeoff from Esenboğa Airport, Ankara, Turkey.

* United Nations Flight Army Air Corps ( Nicosia Airport, Cyprus ).

* February 17 – A chartered Turkish Airlines Vickers Viscount Type 793 carrying Prime Minister of Turkey Adnan Menderes to London to sign the London Agreement for the constitution of Cyprus strikes trees, loses its wings and engines, and crashes in Jordans Wood in Newdigate, Surrey, England, while on approach to Gatwick Airport.

* April 20 – Making its third attempt to land at Nicosia Airport during a violent thunderstorm, a Globe Air Bristol Britannia 313 crashes south of the airport near Lakatamia, Cyprus, killing 126 of the 130 people on board and seriously injuring three of the four survivors.

* January 29 – An EgyptAir Ilyushin Il-18 crashes in the Kyrenia mountain range in Cyprus while on descent to land at Nicosia International Airport in Nicosia, Cyprus, killing all 37 people on board.

* Larnaca International Airport, Cyprus ( IATA airport code )

is an airline based in Florya, Bakırköy district, Istanbul, Turkey, operating domestic and international scheduled passenger services and regular charter flights to Europe, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates, usually out of either Atatürk International Airport ; Istanbul, Ercan Airport ; Northern Cyprus, Adnan Menderes Airport ; İzmir, or Antalya Airport ; Antalya.

* Cyprus Airways ( CY ) uses Larnaca Airport ( LCA ).

Ercan International Airport,, is an airport in the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

In the interview for the national TV station-RIK 1 which he gave immediately after landing at the Larnaca International Airport, popular " Bi Džej " said that he did not came to Cyprus because of the money and that his motives are promotion of basketball on this beautiful island.