We have flown with Turkish airlines many times and have found them to be the best, so fingers crossed they fly from the UK.
Errr... have you actually read this topic?
Since posting iv read ( who knows if its true!) that a travel agent told someone Turkish Airlines along with a few other carriers are bidding for Monarch's old slots and if successful it will be announced in January at sale time...this would mean they would then have direct flights from uk which would be just brilliant...
Too the best of my knowledge this isn't correct. Their slots at Manchester and Birmingham have been lost and are back in the general pool, administered by ACL (Airport Coordination Ltd). Their slots at Gatwick and Luton were subject to a high court appeal against them losing them, which the administrators won today. The airlines currently in the frame to bid on them are EasyJet, IAG (owners of BA), Wizz Air and Norwegian.
Here's a link to an article in today's FT with a bit more detail:
https://www.ft.com/content/cb920b32-cf9c-11e7-9dbb-291a884dd8c6It'd be great if THY decided to enter the contest for the slots but direct flights to holiday destinations doesn't fit their model (this came from a THY middle manager I met in Sevilla last week who was appalled when I asked him about it - on the basis of a topic on here a couple of weeks ago) as they consider themselves a "premium flag carrier". OK, the guy might have really been in charge of discharging the toilet tanks at Ataturk, but he came across as a wee bit further up the food chain. He got a bit shifty when I suggested they were considering a direct IST - SVQ flight, so as far as I'm concerned I reckon I'll see a direct Sevilla flight before direct Dalaman from the UK.
But, as I said, the guy might have been a glorified lavvy attendant!
JF