Atlasjet selling tickets for abandoned CTA passengers’ “extra flights”
Had a quick look at the Atlasjet website and was pleased to see that there was an extra flight put on for CTA ticket holders leaving 22:15 on 6th July 2010. I thought how kind it was of new majority owners Atlasjet to do this for all those Cyprus Turkish Airline ticket holders about to lose their holidays because of the airline’s incompetent TRNC government owners.
I should have let it lie. Out of curiosity I thought I’d just see whether the flight was available for booking. In the end I booked just the outgoing part of the journey (I’ll explain why later.) This is what I got
That’s right they are selling tickets for seat that they pretended were there to help victims of CTA’s collapse. One-way tickets for 4 adults and 2 children cost double the price of the original CTA tickets, and there was worse to come. There are no return flights two weeks later not even for cash money!
This is not helping Mr Kemal Dürüst, Minister of Tourism, Environment and Culture, perhaps his Music degree will come in useful, especially if he can play the fiddle. Perhaps he would like to join the queue at Stansted on the 6th July and bring along his two children so that he can experience the full impact of his inaction. Bring the President and the Prime Minister and their families along with you but be sure not to queue jump.
polly on 
Dominic Freeman on 
David Waters on 
Ian Edwards on
as one Turkish Cypriot wrote in an email to NCFP:
The government of North Cyprus should be ashamed of itself allowing
its airline to take money from people knowing they were going
bankrupt. And now Atlasjet is not honouring the flights instead they
are treating these paid customers like animals and also selling
tickets for the same seats that the CTA customers have already paid
for. I am Turkish Cypriot and have ALWAYS supported everything Turkish
Cypriot including buying CTA flights for me and my family. Look at the
way we are being treated. We are the people who year on year come to
North Cyprus and spend our money, helping the TRNC economy. I wish I
never bothered. The worst thing is that I am being pushed to buy
flights to Larnaca to get to North Cyrus HOW SHAMEFUL IS THAT? You
people in power disgust me, you only think about yourselves, your
money your comfort but spare a thought for all your fellow Turkish
Cypriots wanting to fly out to North Cyprus, these people who pay the
money to help your floundering tourist industry. The Greek Cypriots
are laughing their heads off at your incompetence. Right now I wish I
was I was not Turkish Cypriot. The government needs to intervene and
insist Atlasjet honours all CTA flight tickets properly not on a first
come first serve basis. That is a disgusting way to treat people. Also
Atlasjet must stop selling flight tickets on planes that should be
designated to CTA ticket holders. DO SOMETHING NOW PLEASE.
what do you expect honest and propriety from greedy turkish cyps i am more and more convinced there honest turkish cypriots are like rocking horse poo everyone taks about them but the reality is……
John, Atlasjet is Turkish
So was CTA! (Registered in Turkey)
operating via trnc authorized by trnc goverment employing turkish Cypriots goverment have insisted it be run as a national airline ( high prices) rather than cut price operator( encourage people to use it)
if you want to see what high prices means then try booking a Pegasus flight.
Back to Larnaca?
No Florida is a much better bet.
Break the demand and you break the price.
WHO NEEDS EMBARGOES WHEN YOU HAVE MONKEYS IN CHARGE?