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[Nikitas]

Your opinion is respected VP, but it is the TURKISH army that keeps Famagusta closed and their allegiance is not to you, or the TRNC.

[bill cobbett]

VP,

As a newspaper man I tell you that any such return of Famagusta would be a multilevel news story which would bring Turkey more free publicity than one thousand highly paid lobbyists.

Political coverage aside, the sheer volume of articles about the ecological aspects of a dead city would be staggering. The human interest stories would add thousands more items. Now add the political stuff and you have a massive coverage benefiting Turkey.

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With all due respect I dont give a shit how much coverage Turkey would get, Im more interested in my own people and how their lives would be effected positively and negatively. The deal will get nowgere if direct flights to Ercan are not included.

Presumably VP you mean non-stop direct flights under the legal RoC FIR. If so, we might have a deal?????

[runaway]

you're talking my language...

Really? Türkçe'nin anadilin olmasına sevindim.

[Malapapa]

you're talking my language...

Really? Türkçe'nin anadilin olmasına sevindim.

Every letter, a rum one.

[cymart]

Do you really think it would make that much difference?People can get to the north now,either via Turkey or by using flights to Larnaca Airport if they want to!The airline industry already has enough problemsand I cannot see them rushing to start flights direct to Ercan when there are already plenty of flights to Cyprus?
Another question is how many airports are viable in a small country like Cyprus anyway?Then there is also the environmental aspect....
Until 1974 Nicosia served the whole island(I wonder what they plan to do with it as it will never re-open as an airport?) while nowadays we have Paphos serving the south west,north-west and south,Larnaca serving the south, east,south-east and Nicosia and Ercan serving the north,a crazy situation.If there really was to be a re-united federal Cyprus,Ercan is not needed,especially after all the money that has been spent on Larnacas new airport and facilities.
Of course the real agenda of some people on both sides is partition,even though they do not always say it openly:you keep to your side and we'll keep to ours and that includes running your own services and facilities,even if it is economically not viable for anyone in the long run!

[vaughanwilliams]

Do you really think it would make that much difference?People can get to the north now,either via Turkey or by using flights to Larnaca Airport if they want to!The airline industry already has enough problemsand I cannot see them rushing to start flights direct to Ercan when there are already plenty of flights to Cyprus?
Another question is how many airports are viable in a small country like Cyprus anyway?Then there is also the environmental aspect....
Until 1974 Nicosia served the whole island(I wonder what they plan to do with it as it will never re-open as an airport?) while nowadays we have Paphos serving the south west,north-west and south,Larnaca serving the south, east,south-east and Nicosia and Ercan serving the north,a crazy situation.If there really was to be a re-united federal Cyprus,Ercan is not needed,especially after all the money that has been spent on Larnacas new airport and facilities.
Of course the real agenda of some people on both sides is partition,even though they do not always say it openly:you keep to your side and we'll keep to ours and that includes running your own services and facilities,even if it is economically not viable for anyone in the long run!

I don't think it's so much that certain airports serve certain areas in Cyprus, it's more that they serve certain destinations abroad.
I come from a small part of the UK (South West) and we have three airports, Exeter, Plymouth and Newquay. They are only an hours drive between any of them but they serve different areas in the UK and abroad. If I wanted to fly to the Channel Islands I'd do it from Exeter, or Belfast I'd fly from Newquay, Glasgow from Plymouth, etc.
Ercan will always link Cyprus with Turkey and the UK as these will have historically been its routes.

[cymart]

The U.K. is a country of 50 million people living hundreds of miles apart,while Cyprus is less than one million and 180 miles long maximum!

[vaughanwilliams]

The U.K. is a country of 50 million people living hundreds of miles apart,while Cyprus is less than one million and 180 miles long maximum!

And so is the South West of the UK (Devon & Cornwall) and we have three airports, just like Cyprus does.

[Malapapa]

The U.K. is a country of 50 million people living hundreds of miles apart,while Cyprus is less than one million and 180 miles long maximum!

And so is the South West of the UK (Devon & Cornwall) and we have three airports, just like Cyprus does.

Fancy a 40,000 strong army from Turkey to go with them? And maybe if they turfed your family out of their ancestral south-west homes someone could arrange for a fat couple from Hove to move in instead...

[B25]

The U.K. is a country of 50 million people living hundreds of miles apart,while Cyprus is less than one million and 180 miles long maximum!

And so is the South West of the UK (Devon & Cornwall) and we have three airports, just like Cyprus does.

Correction, Cyprus only has 2 legitimate airports. Anything else is criminal.

I guess cheapskates just don't understand the concept.