Originally Posted by
ROC10
That could be the reason, even though Turkey is not a member of the EU, I guess there may be restrictions on the Canadian a/c.
I suppose the main question is, why are the flights by ABR and not BY/TOM?
From what I remember those flights were operated by ABR a few years ago and CLJ last year. Because of the lack of lease capacity this year (ABR not being available as EI-STA now operates for Aer Lingus during the winter) TOM have operated them, on behalf of ABR this year. Now I’m not 100% sure but I’ve read or heard that before and it could well be wrong. It’s something like that anyway.