It looks like Easy Jet hit the wall in Turkey as their web site stopped selling tickets for flights between London Luton and Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport which supposed to start on 29.June.2006.
The following error message comes if you want to buy a ticket for this route:
Sorry, but seats on this route are not currently available. [css03]
This is very annoying! I booked EasyJet to Istanbul on the first day that the tickets came on sale. I got an excellent price (£57 return from London including all taxes and fees) for the 4th-11th July. I now anticipate some email informing me that I will not be able to go to Istanbul in July as planned after all.
Let's hope Easy Jet will get the relevant permission before the planned launch (29/6/06)!! So the passengers who already purchased tickets as well as potential passengers like me don't get disadvantaged from this situation.
At today date EZY does not get rights to fly to Turkey and EZS has the rights to fly from Basel ! flights started.
Swiss "orange" seems better than english one in flighte rights negociations
Wait and see and hope situation will be clarified soon
Just read in the Turkish civil aviation authority's website that Easy Jet has been granted three day a week (every saturday-sunday and monday) flight permission from London Luton to Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International despite they have applied permission for daily flights.
I hope this will ease the stress of the passengers who bought the tickets before. At least, for time being, they can fly to Istanbul until Easy Jet can persuade the Turkish authorities for daily flights.
^ I'm glad you find this amusing. Unfortunately I don't as I have paid for my flights already. It's my hard-earned cash! My outbound flight is on the 4th July and my inbound flight on the 11th of July (ie both Tuesdays - days on which Easyjet has no permission to fly).
I agree with earthman. It looks like Easy Jet started selling tickets and made reservations before was granted permission to fly to Istanbul. I hope they will compensate passengers like Mercutio as now he has to change the date he supposed to fly.
It looks like Easy Jet started selling tickets and made reservations before was granted permission to fly to Istanbul
Easyjet did the same on Paris-Orly Ajaccio (Corsica) in April. The French aviation authority refused to grant a permission to fly because the line is an OSP (Obligation de Service Public), i.e the government gives money to AF and CCM to sustain a regular service between France and Corsica. This contract is valid until 2009.
People had been refunded.
Does anybody know a translation for "OSP" ? Thanks.
In French : OSP , Obligation de Service Public
In English : PSO , Public Service Obligation.
The Italian are also adept of "Oneri di Servizio Pubblico", e.g. to Sardegna.
A consolation for the boss : Stelios Hani-Ioannou, the founder of easyJet, has been knighted (in the Queen's 80th birthday honor list ) - he is thus now Sir Stelios !
EasyJet have now contacted me by email and offered me either a full refund or alternatively they offer to "reimburse the cost of... [my] ticket less the amount refunded" - whatever that means. They also say they will continue trying to get permission for the flights as originally scheduled. I think I will wait for a couple of weeks, and if they still haven't got permission, I will ask for my refund then.
you can't upgrade on Easyjet, there's only 1 class...
LOL means " It's a joke"
Definition of LOL found in Urban Dictionnary: It's original definition was "Laughing out loud" (also written occasionally as "Lots of Laughs"), used as a brief acronym to denote great amusement in chat conversations.
I can understand the weather, strike, heavy traffic etc which they can't control or predict, but something like selling tickets without gaining permission to fly should give the right to the passenger to claim compensantion. What is EJ did was a bad planning and they took risk thinking that everything would be OK. I think Mercutio should ask for compensation and take his case to the Fair Trading Dept. in the U.K.
I'm also waiting to see what happens with all of this as I have already bought my flight to Trukey and have already bought other connecting flights which would be affected by this.
Hey hakan, you stated that easyjet is allowed to fly to Turkey on Saturdays, Sundays and mondays only, could you please tell me where you found this information?
I'm asking because if you try to buy a flight on one of these days the easyjet website still replies that you cannot buy this flight at this time and assuming that they are as money-hungry as I think they are it seems odd.
thanks
I really hope they solve this problem quick 'cause they're going to ruin my trip.
Easy Jet’in İngiltere – Türkiye ( Luton – Sabiha Gökçen ) uçuşlarına izin verildi.
Easy Jet Cumartesi - Pazar – Pazartesi olmak üzere, haftada 3 gün Türkiye’ye uçuş gerçekleştirecektir.
I understand 1st, 2nd, 3rd July flights are definetely on, but not sure about the other dates. There are rumors that the negotiations are still going on between the company and the authorities.
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