leftyboarder From Turkey, joined Apr 2008, 656 posts, RR: 1 Posted (1 year 7 months 1 day ago) and read 6702 times:
Apparently Iraq has banned Turkish airline companies from its airports (Atlas, Pegasus, TK, Onur operate to Iraq) in response to Turkish courts ordering the seizure of Iraqi aircraft as a result of Iraqi oil company debt to Turkey.
I'd say this is shooting yourself in the foot for Iraq; Turkish airline companies have basically covered the entire market and provide great connections to Europe and the rest of the world. Of course both sides will be losers in this case. I hope this ban is reversad as soon as possible.
raffik From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2006, 1651 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (1 year 7 months 12 hours ago) and read 5794 times:
Tit for tat! This will benefit the other airlines who serve Iraq- and there are a few now including the national carrier that
has its own direct services into Istanbul.
Who knows what the future holds?
ATL From United States of America, joined Nov 2011, 68 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 7 months 7 hours ago) and read 4628 times:
And everything is back to normal I was thinking that it would have been a shame for TK to lose Iraq services since it is one of their specialty as a major airline to have connection to such places.
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I was thinking that it would have been a shame for TK to lose Iraq services since it is one of their specialty as a major airline to have connection to such places.
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