Direct flights from the UK to Cyprus are scheduled to fall by more than half this winter, from about 103 a week in November to about 48 a week in January, according to an analysis of airport schedules published on Friday by travel website IsleFare.
Airports in London and Manchester keep a wide choice of flights all winter, but services from the rest of the UK thin out sharply from December to February, the analysis found.
Paphos sees the steepest drop. Flights from the UK to Paphos fall from about 62 a week in November to about 19 in January, while flights to Larnaca drop less sharply, from 41 to 29.
In December, each airport has 32 UK flights a week, a total of 64. Both have 30 in February, the month of the school half-term break, giving a total of 60. By March, the total returns to November levels, at 101, with 59 flights to Paphos and 42 to Larnaca.
IsleFare attributes Larnaca’s steadier figures to British Airways’ daily flights from Heathrow, which run all winter. Paphos relies on leisure airlines such as Jet2, TUI and easyJet, and many of their routes pause after November and resume in February or March.
The busiest winter route is Heathrow to Larnaca, where British Airways operates about 18 to 20 flights a week. In January it runs about 20, roughly three a day.
In all, 17 UK airports have at least one direct flight to Cyprus at some point between November and March, and six airlines fly the routes.
Where flights continue in January
Six UK airports have at least one flight a week to Cyprus in January, and four of them are in London. Besides Heathrow, Gatwick has about 11 a week, with easyJet and Wizz Air flying to Larnaca and easyJet and Jet2 to Paphos. Stansted has about four to Paphos, with Ryanair and Jet2, and Luton has about four to Larnaca, with Wizz Air.
Outside London, Manchester has about six a week, all to Paphos, operated by Jet2, easyJet and Ryanair. Birmingham has about one, to Paphos with Jet2.
Bristol and Edinburgh keep a couple of easyJet flights to Paphos in January. East Midlands, Leeds Bradford and Newcastle have about one Jet2 flight each that month. Glasgow, Liverpool, Belfast, Cardiff, Exeter and Bournemouth have no scheduled flights to Cyprus in December or January.
Who flies the routes
British Airways has the largest share of flights across the season, at 28 per cent, mostly from its Heathrow to Larnaca service. It also adds flights from Heathrow and Gatwick to Paphos in November and March.
Jet2 flies from the most UK airports, serving Paphos from 12 at some point in the winter and Larnaca from nine. Much of its programme pauses in mid-winter, however, and in January it flies mainly from Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester and Birmingham. It accounts for 23 per cent of winter flights, the same share as easyJet. That airline flies from Gatwick to both Cypriot airports all winter, and from Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh to Paphos.
Ryanair and Wizz Air each have 10 per cent. Ryanair flies only to Paphos, from Stansted and Manchester, and runs both routes all winter. Wizz Air flies to Larnaca from Luton and Gatwick throughout the season. TUI, with 6 per cent, operates only in November and March, including from regional airports such as Cardiff, Exeter and Bournemouth.
The figures are average weekly arriving flights, taken from the winter 2026/27 schedules of Hermes Airports, which runs Larnaca and Paphos airports. The operator describes the schedules as indicative and subject to change. They show planned flights, not seats on sale, and airlines can still add, move or cancel flights. IsleFare wrote that it cross-checked the Ryanair routes against the airline’s own timetable and found that the figures matched closely. The winter season runs from October 25, 2026, to March 27, 2027.
