Paphos: At the initiative of the Minister of Transport, Marios Dimitriadis, the execution of the Athens-Paphos-Athens route by Cobalt has been locked, after a relevant meeting between Paphos stakeholders and the company, in the presence of the Minister and officials.
As announced yesterday by the Company for Tourism Development and Promotion of Paphos Region, Cobalt has included Paphos in its new flight plans for 2017 with the route Athens-Paphos-Athens with three flights a week and an expected flight start period in the last week of March.
"The new flight schedule for Paphos, in addition to the economic benefits that will result for the province and Cyprus in general, creates a new perspective," the announcement said. "In the near future, it is expected to contribute to the reduction of unemployment in the mitigation of seasonality, to upgrade the international prestige and the position of Paphos.
At the same time, it is expected that the arrivals of individual visitors will increase as Athens Airport can and does serve visitors from other third countries with benefit in similar sectors of the economy such as services, land development, trade, restaurants and more ".
This positive development is characterized as important and satisfies the institutions of Paphos. This announcement comes at a critical stage of the province's economy and gives further perspective and impetus to Paphos and an intermediate connection with markets that interest it, ETAP points out.
The meeting that finalized Cobalt's arrival in Paphos was attended by, in addition to the Minister of Transport, the Director General of the Ministry and other officials, while on behalf of Cobalt attended the Chairman of the Board and other airline officials. On behalf of Paphos institutions, the President and the Secretary of PASYXE Paphos and the Director of the Paphos Region Tourism Development and Promotion Company participated in the contacts.
The Paphos Region Tourism Development and Promotion Company as well as the other bodies express their warm thanks to the competent Minister of Transport for his decisive contribution and at the same time welcome the announcement of the Cobalt airline for the launch of flights to and from Paphos International Airport.
"We welcome Cobalt to Paphos and assure that through a collective effort to do what is possible for a very successful presence in Paphos and to achieve our goals of penetrating new destinations, increasing arrivals and further upgrading Paphos Airport with significant all-year activity ", it is emphasized.
Source: philenews