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
No, but SAW is one of the bigger secondary airports and operated separately to IST.
There is no current operator from the UK to ESB.
They serve the Canaries, and also Morocco - which
afaik has a similar deal to Turkey. How relevant is airport cost on these longer sectors anyway?
It took FR a long time to get into Greece, but they are in there now (whatever economic issues, people can still come in to spend money, but many people will avoid Athens, where FR don't fly anyway).
So is Turkey just a matter of time, or is there a genuinely significant obstacle?