Cyprus Airways (CY) yesterday announced flights to 16 new destinations in Greece starting next Wednesday, under a code-sharing agreement with Greece's Olympic Air.

On Wednesday, CY will also inaugurate flights to Sofia, Bulgaria and Bucharest, Romania, a press statement said.The destinations are Corfu, Zakynthos, Heraklion, Ioannina, Alexandroupoli, Kefalonia, Sandorini, Mykonos, Mytilini, Samos, Rhodes, Kos, Hania, Kavala, Hios and Limnos. 

CY said the flights are part of the cooperation agreement that was signed with Olympic Air in March. 

The first stage of the agreement provided for code-sharing flights to Athens Thessaloniki, Heraklion and Rhodes “with very encouraging results so far,” the airline said. 

“The collaboration aims to offer a unified package of quality services to travellers, which now can take advantage of almost the entire flight network of the two companies,” CY said.