24 Jul
Minister says government will review Turkish air rights
Jul 24, 2023 – 6.42pm
Transport Minister Catherine King says she will review whether Turkish Airlines can add more flights to Australia, blaming the carrier for failing to submit a formal request before it was set to announced expanded services.
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A spokeswoman for Ms King said Turkish Airlines was “already entitled to operate a total of up to seven services per week to Australia... under current bilateral arrangements, subject to meeting safety, security and licensing requirements”. “These critical regulatory processes will take many months to complete before services could commence to Australia,” she added.
23 Jul
https://www.afr.com/companies/transp...0230723-p5dqjd
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While sources close to Qantas indicated the airline did not oppose Turkish Airlines’ expansion, the federal government did not answer questions about why it is not trying to help lower the cost of flying for Australians.<snip>
https://australianaviation.com.au/20...says-minister/
Nothing *political* stopping TK operating 7 flights now. They have the rights for 7, but are not using. They want 14 services (daily MEL & SYD?). Getting the *
technical* requirements is another issue.
MEL airport would welcome flights. SYD airport has a 23:00-05:00/06:00 curfew and a
political limit on aircraft movements per hour. Getting a slot at SYD is hard.
For selling tickets SIN<-->MEL-SYD TK need 5th freedom rights from Singapore.