General News
Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NICOSIA – A new Cypriot airline – TUS Airways – hopes to launch on Dec. 1 if it gets the needed approvals from the government.
The airline is aiming at taking a niche of short-hop routes that larger carriers don’t want. It has been in the works for eight months under a name that means The Ultimate Schedule.
In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mail of Cyprus, Michael Amprikidis, Head of Operations Support and Deputy Manager of TUS said, “This is an entirely different operation.”
“We have hired the best crew, pilots and ground personnel – they all have a lot of years of experience. This is a brand new concept of a turbo-prop airline operating in Cyprus.”
Their strategy is to pull in business and leisure travellers looking for frequent departures to regional destinations including Beirut, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Rhodes, Kos, Eilat, Samos and Karpathos.
The airline plans to serve 12 destinations in winter and 16 during the summer months.
Most of their flights will operate around peak rush hours between 7 a.m.-7 p.m. to keep connection times tight for business travelers.
For the past few weeks their slim, white-painted passenger plane, smaller than the familiar commercial airliners, has been roaring off the runway at Larnaca on a series of trial runs and demo flights.
“We are counting on this high frequency; the time from check-in to boarding will be a very short period of time. And of course, all of our destinations are regional, so one to one and a half hours flying time away. It is this factor that enables us to perform a high-frequency schedule and to serve some destinations two to four times a day,” he says.
In early October TUS was granted an air operator certificate from the department of civil aviation, with its commercial air transport licence still pending.
In an interview last week, Transport Minister Marios Demetriades sounded enthusiastic about the project.
“As the government, we are working hard with all agencies like the Cyprus Tourism Organisation to bring as many planes as we can to Cyprus so we obviously approve such a move. The new airline also gives more options to people in Cyprus wanting to fly out,” Demetriades said.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.