Cyprus Airways has accepted the Swissport/GAP-Vassilopoulos proposal for the provision of handling services at the two Airports Larnaca and Paphos as Swissport International announced. Cyprus Airways has carefully examined various proposals (coming from consortia of international and local companies) to enter into a joint-venture agreement in order to provide the whole range of aviation services at its two most important Airports.

Swissport-GAP has been selected as partner and (together with Cyprus Airways) will now join forces to apply for the ramp licence at Larnaca and Paphos with the intention to offer full ground handling services to Cyprus Airways and other Airlines.

Christos Christopoulos, Director of Swissport-GAP Cyprus, is delighted about this important decision: “With this strong partnership we are confident to obtain the official licences by the end of 2007, allowing us to start up the operational businesses in spring 2008. Indeed a promising outlook for the steadily growing Cyprus Aviation Market”.