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Any opinions on flying Cobalt air ?

Budget Airline, very efficient at getting you from A to B, no frills

Flown with them several time, and have had good service. Their website is a little clunky and not very user friendly, but these are minor details. For us, they provide an excellent alternative to TA as we fly to Dublin and have few other options without multiple stop overs. Recently the TA flights require long stop overs, so it's refreshing to leave Cyprus and land in Ireland a mere 5 hours later.
We have also used them to Crete & Manchester. All good, but yes, no frills.

No frills, does the job.

Gives another option for flights back to the UK.

Very good, punctual. I've flown four times with them and never a problem. They now have live streaming in-flight films but you need your own tablet or laptop in flight mode to watch them, that's a frill.

My disabled 90 year-old mum has used them twice on the Manchester-Larnaca route. Very good service from attentive staff from check in to arrival for such a passenger travelling on her own.

Travelled several times ,but refunds impossible ,overcharged (because poor website ) £70 still waiting for refund.

Have to arrange special assistance by phone but there has been no waiting in line and the call handlers are very polite and helpful. Their Business class is cheaper than BA if booked several months before travel and I like the idea of being able to tell the cabin crew when I want to eat!

Maisiemoo wrote:Have to arrange special assistance by phone but there has been no waiting in line and the call handlers are very polite and helpful. Their Business class is cheaper than BA if booked several months before travel and I like the idea of being able to tell the cabin crew when I want to eat!

Cobalt's business product is better than BA. Bigger better seats in a 2-2 configeration, food on demand & fast-track security.

Traveled several times (MAN-LCA-MAN) with them from when they first started; quite satisfactory and no problems!

Used them last week in and out of Heathrow. Punctual to the letter and friendly helpful staff. Does what it says on the tin.

Used Cobalt for our return to the UK, £400 for two one way business class seats including 30kg extra luggage and of course use of the business lounge with its free food and drink.I also booked special assistance,everything went fine, whisked through security, no waiting in line then first to board.All in all a no hassle experience.

I use them from Dublin TO Larnaca and have no complaints Delighted there is a direct service from Ireland to Cyprus, however it beats having to travel to the U.K or Istanbul.

Can't book any flight after 29th October do they just do Summer service?

Woodspeckie, maybe they haven't released their winter schedule yet.

woodspeckie wrote:Can't book any flight after 29th October do they just do Summer service?

I think the winter schedule comes out sometime during August. Just keep checking their website every few days.

Thank you I will keep checking, Easyjet and Turkish Airlines have more than doubled the price we paid last year to Izmir and North Cyprus.

Cobalt may have gone bust....

https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/10/17/coba ... -grounded/

Air Berlin and Monarch last year. Primera and now Cobalt this month. Who next? Hopefully not Blue Air!

I think Flybe could be the next to go.

I flew from Heathrow to Larnaca one way with Cobalt last night, and I just read that they may have to ground their planes (cease trading) from midnight tonight. I guess I was very lucky. I wondered why they didn't query my overweight bag!

Hedge-fund wrote:

Maisiemoo wrote:Have to arrange special assistance by phone but there has been no waiting in line and the call handlers are very polite and helpful. Their Business class is cheaper than BA if booked several months before travel and I like the idea of being able to tell the cabin crew when I want to eat!

Cobalt's business product is better than BA. Bigger better seats in a 2-2 configeration, food on demand & fast-track security.

Only flown with them once, sat up front in the massssIbo seats, realy comfortably well worth the little extra I paid,flight was great.

Yes and no wrote:

Hedge-fund wrote:

Maisiemoo wrote:Have to arrange special assistance by phone but there has been no waiting in line and the call handlers are very polite and helpful. Their Business class is cheaper than BA if booked several months before travel and I like the idea of being able to tell the cabin crew when I want to eat!

Cobalt's business product is better than BA. Bigger better seats in a 2-2 configeration, food on demand & fast-track security.

Only flown with them once, sat up front in the massssIbo seats, realy comfortably well worth the little extra I paid,flight was great.

They are no longer in business apparently!

BBC News this morning they have ceased trading from today. A Chinese investor pulled out of a new deal.

PRESS RELEASE: PASSENGERS
Cobalt regrets to announce that it will be cancelling all Flights as of 23:50pm on October 17, 2018 due to indefinite suspension of Cobalt’s operations. As a result, future flights or services provided by Cobalt will be cancelled and will no longer operate.

Passengers who have un-flown tickets are instructed not to go to Larnaca Airport or any departure airport tomorrow, 18 October 2018 as no Cobalt flights will operate and no Cobalt staff will be present.

For refunds, please contact your credit card provider or Travel Agent.

We sincerely apologise once again and would like to thank our very loyal customers for their support over the last two years of Cobalt operations.

Not very helpful if you booked on line and used a debit card.

Deniz it is recommended by the banks that you never use your debit card onine.

Flew back to Gatwick yesterday ,feeling fortunate.

Ryanair annouces Cobalt rescue fares
OCTOBER 18TH, 2018 STAFF REPORTER BUSINESS, CYPRUS 0 COMMENTS
Ryanair annouces Cobalt rescue fares

Low-cost airline Ryanair announced on Thursday it has launched rescue fares on a number of its Paphos routes to accommodate stranded Cobalt customers.

Cypriot customers and visitors can fly from Paphos to/from Chania, London Stansted, Tel Aviv, and Thessaloniki at fares starting from just €14.99 for travel from November 2018 to March 2019, and from only €29.99 for travel in October.

These low rescue fares are on sale now on the Ryanair.com website but must be booked by midnight Friday, the airline said.


“Cypriot customers and visitors can continue to enjoy the lowest fares and most reliable service with Ryanair and we’ve released rescue fares to assist stranded Cobalt Air customers,” Ryanair’s Robin Kiely said.



Route from Paphos to: October Winter

CHANIA €36.99 €14.99

LONDON STANSTED €40.99 €30.99

TEL AVIV €29.99 €19.99

THESSALONIKI €48.99 €26.99

Any passengers Cypriot and foreign who were travelling on Cobalt Air by October 24, and wish to return home, can contact TopKinisis: 22869999 and OrthodoxouTravel: 24841100 to arrange for a one-way ticket for repatriation whose cost will be covered by the state. Rpublic of Cyprus

https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/10/18/stat ... assengers/

Cobalt have been given a temporary licence, all might not be lost......

https://in-cyprus.com/news/local/cobalt ... mporarily/

We were caught by the collapse of Cobalt; due to fly back to UK 24 October, so spent two days trying the phone numbers provided - when we did finally get through, the replacement/only available flights given to us were for 23 October....
Well, that's OK - BUT - only to Luton Airport, while we live near Manchester.....
So, National Express from Luton to Manchester - only £94.....
Total journey time from apartment to home - 16 hours, as against normal 7 hours - and to top it off, forgot/left my Kindle on the plane - not found/handed in!
(One pleasant side bit - flight was on Blue Air, with free meals and drinks - quite impressed!)

Deniz1 wrote:Not very helpful if you booked on line and used a debit card.

I booked flights with Monarch two days before they went bust.

Paid with credit card, got all our money back.

If I am paying for or booking anything online that costs more than £100 I put it on the credit card, pay the card off every month, don't want to pay interest