No More Stopovers in Istanbul

(Ynet News) Ronen Carasso, VP marketing for Issta Lines, said that since the detention and humiliation of Israeli passengers at the Istanbul airport on Monday, "we have been receiving calls from dozens of people asking to cancel their Turkish Airlines reservations." He noted that "There are even cheaper flights, through Uzbekistan, or with Russian airlines." Yaron Ohana, CEO of the Penguin travel agency, vowed not to offer flights to Turkey "until the relations return to a certain state of normalization. We have to have some Israeli pride and say, 'Enough'."


2011-09-06 00:00:00

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