Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Flights, Airlines and Airports => Flights to Dalaman and Turkey, Airlines and Airports => Topic started by: johntaylor49 on October 16, 2012, 10:10:13 AM
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Well Kids all grown up and all over the World, thought we might come
to Calis for Xmas but how do you get there? I beleive there are no International flights
to Dalaman in Winter? Is Antlaya open?
Meldrew
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Antalya Yes.
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Tommy Cook have flights from London and Manchester between 20 Dec and 6 Jan. Pegasus fly from Stansted via Istanbul into Dalaman. If not then Antalya.
My daughter is flying with Pegasus as she lives in London and even with the 90 minutes in Istanbul, the journey should be quicker than flying into Antalya as the transfer is so much longer (between 3-5 hours) Also if the weather is bad you have to go the long way round and if the flight arrives late then some people prefer to stay in Antalya to make the journey over the mountain in the light.
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Or there is Turkish Airlines from Heathrow & Manchester via Istanbul
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Tommy Cook have flights from London and Manchester between 20 Dec and 6 Jan. Pegasus fly from Stansted via Istanbul into Dalaman. If not then Antalya.
My daughter is flying with Pegasus as she lives in London and even with the 90 minutes in Istanbul, the journey should be quicker than flying into Antalya as the transfer is so much longer (between 3-5 hours) Also if the weather is bad you have to go the long way round and if the flight arrives late then some people prefer to stay in Antalya to make the journey over the mountain in the light.
Is that Tommy Cook have flights to Antalya or Tommy Cook have flights to Dalaman? Presume Antalya but just checking!
Meldrew
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Thomas Cook have direct flights to and from Dalaman before Christmas until after the NY.
Certainly for London Gatwick as I am (almost the only person) booked on one going back to the UK 21st and coming back 6th Jan.
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We have flights booked on Thomas Cook from Manchester to Dalaman 20th December returning 3rd January.
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Thanks folks will look at that, in Manchester but will travel!
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Have the last TC flights booked 27th to 6th Jan return...£264 just booked one way February - BA - LHR > IST £93 five hour wait : Atlast to DLM 64 TL - would rather have the 5 hour in between than risk not missing the connection.
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As far as I am concerned there is a group of people/agencies plotting to make it as difficult as possible to do "Winter travel to Calis"
Even the dolmus and council buses are fewer and finish earlier.
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Rip off turkey why is it so expensive to fly to turkey ,friends of mine flying from Moscow to turkey 465 dollars Moscow to malaga Spain same day 1000 miles more 225 dollars 2 hour longer flight half the price. : :)
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Rip off turkey why is it so expensive to fly to turkey ,friends of mine flying from Moscow to turkey 465 dollars Moscow to malaga Spain same day 1000 miles more 225 dollars 2 hour longer flight half the price. : :)
Well Comrade Lance, we in the Politburo know the answer to these things, shimples! :) Or at least this is
the common reason! Although in the EU and other areas Cartels are illegal they are positively encouraged in a lot
of the emerging World and frequently in place to ensure that people use the national airline. Not only do you often
find the price is high, (and if you offer lower prices you will suddenly find you can no longer fly to the main Airports, (why EasyJet only fly to Sabiha Gocken Airport in Istanbul?) or even that you are told you cant have landing rights next year) Good examples of this is Saudi Arabia, the price is high such that Saudia Airlines will always be the cheapest, few international Airlines are allowed to fly there, and if they are often not to Riyadh the capital. In fact even BA had to shift there flights to Dammam for a while. (I suspect that threatening Saudia with Gatwick did the trick and got them back to Riyadh :) )
In the case of summer flights to Turkey from Ukl a) it takes a lot more fuel, and b) they can easily fill flights equals higher prices but also it could be excessive landing fees at Turkish Airports?? You only have to look at the prices at Dalaman Airport to see how that would work!
Spain understands the desperate importance of its tourist income, especially now, whereas Turkey as a nation is not so reliant on Tourism? In fact if all Coastal Airports were closed to International traffic, 70% of Turks probably wouldnt care too much!
Anyway as my Grandson would say "whatever, massive init?"
Meldrew the Impaler
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yes Amca, thats because there are few tourists here,and the price of petrol,
dolmuses,,cant afford to run emty.also planes cant afford to run emty.