Thousands at Dalaman?/ Just imagine what they would be making on drinks at the airport!!! Dont think this is entirely true. People have either been allocated hotels, have found their own to wait it out, or as other people have said, have returned to their own houses in the surrounding areas.
I work for a tour operator, we have clients in a few areas of Turkey and also in Northern Cyprus. We do not have our own airlines,but use Turkish Airlines, Cyprus Turkish, Thomas Cook at this time of year. Turkish airlines have been great, even finding accommodation for our clients in Istanbul when we know Istanbul is very full. Other airlines have done as much as they can under the circumstances.We are paying for our package holiday clients to stay in hotels, and are assisting our flight only customers as much as we can. I am sure that Thomas Cook are also helping clients.EU law states that flights between Eu countries or those originating from Eu countries etc etc, so Northern Cyprus is a bit of a grey area. We are, though, paying for hotel accommodation for our clients in N Cyprus as we feel these are extraordinary circumstances and would wish to keep our good name.
We understand this is not the case with other operators.
This volcano is just one of the forces that nature can throw at us, but I think we should be grateful it is not an earthquake or something that takes lots of lives.
It will take a while to return to normal operation after the no fly ban has been lifted, so we will all have to be patient!
