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Flights, Airlines and Airports => Flights to Dalaman and Turkey, Airlines and Airports => Topic started by: terrie on December 29, 2013, 15:43:39 PM

Title: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: terrie on December 29, 2013, 15:43:39 PM
Thomascook are starting a winter flight service from gatwick to dalaman from 12th feb,and possibly manchester
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: yabanci on December 29, 2013, 16:16:53 PM
27 euros for the Dalaman to Gatwick flight on 12th Feb.
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: Menthol on December 29, 2013, 16:51:57 PM
Fingers crossed for them starting from Manchester - even if it is Thomas Cook .....   ;)
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: Fran on December 29, 2013, 16:52:47 PM
No Manchester yet, I hope they do saves the trek to and from Antalya.
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: Marggie on December 29, 2013, 17:01:44 PM
If they do put flights on to Manchester, I hope they are well advertised and that the High Street shops are aware of them.

When they flew into Dalaman in the winter a few years ago, the travel agents were not aware of that.  I went in to check the price of a flight and was informed that they did not fly to Turkey in the winter.  I think most of us are aware that they fly into Antalya all year round and at that time they were flying into Dalaman.
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: Karennina on December 29, 2013, 17:24:37 PM
WOOOOHOOOO I am so excited about this just going to have a look I wonder whether any of the shared shuttles will put a few transfers on if there are going to be flights....Thank you Terrie for posting about this 8)
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: nelson on December 29, 2013, 21:10:02 PM
 this is good news indeed ............... ide rather travel down to Gatwick , than from Antalya to Fethiye, but all crossed for flights from Manchester xx
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: puma on December 29, 2013, 22:18:16 PM
will keep a check on this,i hope manchester flights happen
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: honeycombe on December 30, 2013, 08:25:04 AM
Great news but just checked out the transfer shuttles which took the shine off things,  certainly don't want to use pegasus after my last experience with them
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: Scunner on December 30, 2013, 10:02:44 AM
Which was..?
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: Ian on December 30, 2013, 10:33:18 AM
Pegasus (and to be balanced probably some others) will always take you for a very reasonable price - £25 for up to 4 people - one way to Fethiye or Calis and at that price even I pay for a private transfer :D

I think the trick with transfer people is to text or e-mail them the day before or early on the day to remind them. Used Pegasus for about 20 transfers and 6 car hire and by doing this each time I have never had a major problem. These types of service sector businesses are either too busy or too quiet so a quick prompt always helps  ;)
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: Scunner on December 30, 2013, 10:40:25 AM
I doubt an email or text would help with most problems I have read about them - I think the biggest area of complaint about Pegasus private transfers is the number of times people have paid for private and ended up having to share - with no explanation, apology or discount.
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: Ian on December 30, 2013, 10:48:09 AM
That is unacceptable - but it has never happened to me and I like to think we would contact Mutlu and get some satisfaction if ever it did - we will see .........
Title: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: Somerset Simon on December 31, 2013, 15:09:31 PM
We flew back to Gatwick with Thomas Cook on Sunday night and just a warning that all hand luggage was being weighed at check in. As we had no cases and just small hand luggage I was surprised that we were well over the 5kg each allowance (even after I had removed iPad, phones etc and put in my coat pocket whilst queuing). I did manage to talk my way around issue ( good job she didn't check for my heavy laptop as it wasn't there!) and couldn't believe that when I checked the TC website earlier, they will charge £50 for excess hand luggage that has to be transported in the hold!
Title: Re: Thomas cook winter flights to dalaman
Post by: Steady_Andy on January 05, 2014, 19:17:35 PM
You were lucky. We had the same problem and also filled our pockets and even had to hide some heavy items behind a weighing machine before going back to be re-weighed. We were told £60 to transfer a bag to the hold. Of couse, we refilled our bags as soon as we got our boarding passes.