Images from Larnaca Airport show the terminal largely deserted after the cancellation of more than 60 flights across Cyprus in the wake of Iranian drone attacks on the RAF Akrotiri base.

Larnaca bore the brunt of the disruption, with 42 flights cancelled — 21 arrivals and 21 departures.

Paphos Airport, which was also evacuated after radar detected a suspicious object, saw a further 18 cancellations. Both airports later returned to normal operations.

The cancellations are in view to ongoing US-Israeli military operations and Iranian retaliatory strikes that disrupted air travel across the region.


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