Larnaca Airport — Larnaca, Cyprus

Adamos Vasiliou (Maryland USA) - June 7, 2021
On June 6th 2021 Saturday, approximately 2:30pm Cyprus time I was travelling business class with my wife who is an American and does not speak Greek.
At the security screening after passing though the metal detector she was stopped by one of your female security for physical body search. At the security check station I noticed they had no idea about security. Your female security keep speaking broken Greek to my wife and I informed her that my wife speak English and France and has two knee replacement (that was set off the alarm) and also has a heart condition. I never experience such a poor security practice.
Then they pass through the X ray machine my wife’s journal book that look and my Apple iPod that is milled aluminum. Why the security did not had the intelligence to open up the book (who though was a computer) and the X-ray can jot go through the metal case of my iPod and ask me to turn it on. They passed both idem twice through X-ray. My US federal security badge and ID was in the basket in a visible place a clear indication that we are no threat.
Seen my wife getting upset the way your security was treating her I asked to see a supervisor who was a very young man.
I will contact in Cyprus the minister of transportation, civil aviation dept, several other high authorities in Cyprus and I will file my report to USA Homeland security, TSA and any authority need to know about AVSEC IJet’s poor security screening.

Eli Epstein (New York) - August 27, 2013
I flew to Larnarca and loved the airport and city. But flying out to Tel Aviv I saw not a single security person. It was completely exposed. No other airport in the EU or USA allows this. Israelis are easy targets. How is this possible?