Kuwait -OKBK?

[414Flyer]

You would be correct. And actually Limosol (sp?) is a tad better than Larnaca. But you really can't go wrong with either city. They are all filled with girls that just don't need makeup at all, and thats saying something.

The only heffers I saw were the British tourist women, jeesh.

Yeah, I almost said the exact same thing. The only unattractive woman I saw in Larnaca, was the Brit hotel clerk hitting on me.

Does Larnaca airport still have that mandatory bus they send to ones plane, that they charge a whole lot of money for, to take you about 100 meters across the ramp to the terminal?

As for the original question, flying in that part of the world is not hard. Just have a handling company that works out any overflight issues and visas beforehand. When bringing a Cheyenne II back to the US, I was able to overfly Syria and Beirut, before landing in Larnaca.

 

[JohnnyP]

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Yeah, I almost said the exact same thing. The only unattractive woman I saw in Larnaca, was the Brit hotel clerk hitting on me.

Does Larnaca airport still have that mandatory bus they send to ones plane, that they charge a whole lot of money for, to take you about 100 meters across the ramp to the terminal?

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Do you mean the "Cobus 3000"..?....They didn't charge us anything (well maybe they put it on the swissport bill), but that huge bus that would probably hold half a 737, maybe more, would pull up to our little jet and get the 2 of us and take us to the terminal to get stamped in. We actually arranged a permanent parking spot on the general aviation ramp alongside the runway because we were there so much.

Cyprus even stamped us in/out of the county to do a training flight one day (actually on several occassions), and then on another occassion just to walk out to the airplane to gather some belongings!!.....They are nuts about stamping the flight crews in/out.

 

[414Flyer]

Whats even funnier, is that each plane that comes in, has to get its own bus sent to it. Our two Cheyennes, required two of those huge busses, for two of us, and we were charged around 100 dollars for each bus I think, for that very short trip across the ramp to the terminal. You were charged for it somehow, maybe it went to the handlers first.

 

[icefr8dawg]

Thank's for all in the info on OKBK, just got word the trip got canceled because all meetings were re-arranged to Cypus via Airline, bummmer. After planning and ordering thousands of charts...
We still have Moscow and Yekaterinburg to contend with in the spring.