London - Turkey market
Over the last few months, SunExpress have flown a 1x weekly route from Luton to Gaziantep in southern Turkey. They also flew the route in summer 2019. The flight departed Luton about 10pm, arriving in Gaziantep around 5am, thus keeping an airframe busy earning revenue when it would otherwise be on the ground incurring parking fees. Fares on the website seemed healthy. Is anyone able to comment on how the route did commercially over the last few months ?
SunExpress tried non-stop London-Ankara in 2019... since then Anadolujet (ie Turkish) and Pegasus have both joined SunExpress on the route - so there is clearly money in the VFR London-Turkey market
Yes, I know Gaziantep functions partly as an entrypoint to Syria, but Gaziantep still has over 2 million residents
I'm wondering if SunExpress, Anadolujet, Pegasus or Corendon would consider a 1x weekly overnight route from London to places like Adana (or the new Çukurova airport) or Trabzon ? Neither of these are likely to see many tourists... but they are among Turkey's busier airports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_Turkey
Looking at the Germany-Turkey market, there are a lot of overnight flights which ethnic Turks will put up with to fly non-stop and save some euros - I am wondering how much this model might work in the UK
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 14th Sep 2022 at 19:38.