Commercial airlines operating to Larnaca and Paphos fully reinstated their pre-crisis timetables on Saturday, 14 March 2026, signalling that the operational fallout from the 1 March drone strike on Britain’s RAF Akrotiri base has largely dissipated. Travellers posting in the popular r/Cyprus forum reported that “all airlines have since resumed flight to Cyprus”, a statement corroborated by updated schedules on the global GDS feeds.
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Travellers looking to take advantage of the restored flight network may also wish to verify entry requirements: VisaHQ’s Cyprus page (https://www.visahq.com/cyprus/) provides instant visa checks, online applications and live support, removing any lingering administrative hurdles before departure.
Carriers including Wizz Air, easyJet, Aegean, Lufthansa and Emirates had introduced rolling cancellations and equipment swaps during the first week of March while military forces assessed air-defence risks in the Eastern Mediterranean. Insurers have now downgraded the island’s risk rating from “war and allied perils—elevated” to “heightened” after additional French, Italian and Dutch naval assets arrived to reinforce the EU’s aerial umbrella. For corporate mobility teams the return to normal operations removes the need for expensive re-routing via Tel Aviv or Athens and restores predictable arrival windows for project engineers and seafarers signing on to vessels in Limassol port. Travel-management companies (TMCs) are advising clients, however, to retain flexible-ticket policies through the end of April while geopolitical tensions remain fluid. Inbound tourism stakeholders welcomed the news: Cyprus Tourism Deputy Minister Kostas Koumis told local media that March seat capacity is now only 1 % below the original winter-season plan, and forward bookings for Easter week have rebounded to 92 % of 2025 levels. Hoteliers in Paphos, the region initially perceived as closest to the military base, report cancellations have stabilised and new group enquiries are coming in for May. Airspace restrictions remain in force within a 15-nautical-mile exclusion zone around Akrotiri during scheduled military exercises, but these are confined to early-morning windows and are published by NOTAM at least 24 hours in advance, allowing airlines to adjust routings with minimal disruption.
Travellers looking to take advantage of the restored flight network may also wish to verify entry requirements: VisaHQ’s Cyprus page (https://www.visahq.com/cyprus/) provides instant visa checks, online applications and live support, removing any lingering administrative hurdles before departure.
Carriers including Wizz Air, easyJet, Aegean, Lufthansa and Emirates had introduced rolling cancellations and equipment swaps during the first week of March while military forces assessed air-defence risks in the Eastern Mediterranean. Insurers have now downgraded the island’s risk rating from “war and allied perils—elevated” to “heightened” after additional French, Italian and Dutch naval assets arrived to reinforce the EU’s aerial umbrella. For corporate mobility teams the return to normal operations removes the need for expensive re-routing via Tel Aviv or Athens and restores predictable arrival windows for project engineers and seafarers signing on to vessels in Limassol port. Travel-management companies (TMCs) are advising clients, however, to retain flexible-ticket policies through the end of April while geopolitical tensions remain fluid. Inbound tourism stakeholders welcomed the news: Cyprus Tourism Deputy Minister Kostas Koumis told local media that March seat capacity is now only 1 % below the original winter-season plan, and forward bookings for Easter week have rebounded to 92 % of 2025 levels. Hoteliers in Paphos, the region initially perceived as closest to the military base, report cancellations have stabilised and new group enquiries are coming in for May. Airspace restrictions remain in force within a 15-nautical-mile exclusion zone around Akrotiri during scheduled military exercises, but these are confined to early-morning windows and are published by NOTAM at least 24 hours in advance, allowing airlines to adjust routings with minimal disruption.
