Until the end of the season ‘JAT’ should have at least 201 charter flights to Turkey, but that number shall be decreased by 63 flights because Serbian tourists gave up Turkish holiday destinations for obvious reasons. The loss by ‘JAT’ because of this dispute is estimated to about EUR 1 million. One the other hand Turkish holiday resorts shall lose now embittered Serbian tourists.
‘JAT yesterday had its charter flight to Antalia and it yesterday got permits for flights for today, Thursday and Friday. Although the domestic Directorate of civil aviation claims that it shall request from the Turkish aviation authorities permits for a longer period of time, it is most likely that the issuance of permits shall be on a short-term basis.
‘We suggested to the Turkish Directorate of civil aviation that we issue permits to their companies on a monthly basis or even for the whole season and expressed our expectation that they do the same. We have got oral promise so far and in the following days we are expecting it in writing’, Katarina Andric’ Milosavljevic, advisor for public relations at the Directorate says for ‘Blic’.
As we learn our Directorate acted as promised so the Turkish ‘Atlas Jet’ yesterday got permits for all flights until the end of the month. In spite of the agreement reached in Ankara on June 5 the situation has become complicated these days because of some unsolved relations of earlier regarding permits to the ‘Turkish Airlines’ for regular flights between Belgrade and Istanbul. Then our aviation authorities prolonged the decision and gave the permits at the last minute.