Only president, House speaker can fly business class

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Only President Nicos Anastasiades and parliamentary speaker Yiannakis Omirou of all government officials will now be entitled to fly business class, as part of the austerity measures Cyprus agreed to with international lenders in exchange for a bailout.
The ban on business class travel for government employees will not apply to transatlantic flights, said an MoU between Cyprus and the euro zone.
Apart from the restrictions on more comfortable travel, senior government officials will also lose the right to buy duty-free cars and all state officials and parliamentarians will have wages frozen until 2016, the document said.