Originally Posted by
JSCL
I was of the impression that FR would have to gain traffic rights if it were to fly outside of Ireland>Turkey market.
I believe the individual EU states' bilaterals with Turkey have been replaced with an EU-level agreement (i.e. any EU carrier can fly from anywhere in the EU to Turkey). See this
soporific EC document.
I could guess that the reasons FR doesn't fly to Turkey include:
- long sector lengths
- plenty of capacity already
- low-cost operators (including Pegasus etc) at aggressively low yields
- quite healthy Turkish air transport market, meaning a lack of desperate Turkish airport operators willing to hand over fistfuls of lira in subsidies to Ryanair