Originally Posted by
hugolover
AFAIK as part of the TR-PL bilateral, each can veto the other, therefore LO will have offered TK KTW for some reason, and that's why they didn't get KRK which they would say would not be in LO's interest. I bet
ISTFlyer can explain more. Bear this in mind when you consider how absurd it is that LO and LH share the same FFP (per my comments on the HON PA thread) if LO find it against their interests to allow TK into KRK.
Yes, it is correct that Türkiye and Poland doesn't have an open-skies agreement but a bilateral for scheduled flights, while LOT has all the Polish slots, the slots on the Turkish side are shared among Turkish Airlines, Corendon and SunExpress
Apparently, the number of flights to/from WAW of Turkish carriers are equal to those of Polish carriers, with x7 TK service to/from IST, x3 TK service to/from AYT, x2 XQ service to/from AYT and x2 XC service to/from AYT while LOT uses all their 14 slots to/from IST.
For KTW; there would be x5 weekly IST services by TK and x2 weekly AYT services ( one by XQ and one by XC ).
Before this phenomenon, last year, the total services including XQ and XC to KTW was included in the x14 weekly service, and apparently, PC has also dropped their AYT-KTW and AYT-GDN route which if I'm not wrong were x1 weekly. IIRC; last year ( it was x6 TK, x2 Pegasus, x3 XQ and x3 XC - not 100% sure about the non-TK part - ) how the Turkish sides used their flight right allocations.
Since there is no information if the bilateral has been modified/changed/replaced or if the KTW slots were given as an addition, and if so, I have no information which carrier has got the reciprocal Polish slots ( if so ) and which route they would use it on.
For those wondering, here is the 1978 version of the bilateral if someone would like to take a look at it:
https://web.shgm.gov.tr/umevzuat/avr...ma/polonya.pdf