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[humanist]

AN AIRLINE and tour operator has lost a legal bid to overturn a 35-year-old ban on flights from the UK to northern Cyprus.

Cyprus Turkish Airlines (CTA) and its UK tour operator, CTA Holidays Limited, failed to secure a judicial review at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre.

The government argues lifting the ban would contravene the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation.

Currently, flights to northern Cyprus must land in Turkey first. CTA, which flies about 100,000 visitors from the UK to Northern Cyprus each year, says this increases flight times, fares and fuel emissions.

But Mr Justice Wyn Williams dismissed the airline's call for a review. CTA's lawyers argued the government's continuing refusal to lift the ban was "unlawful and unjust".

Permitting direct flights between UK airports and northern Cyprus would have "huge, symbolic importance" for a divided island with a painful modern history, they said.

CTA argued the ban had "absolutely no operational justification".

It added the government had misunderstood the Chicago Convention and there was also no justification under international law for banning direct flights.

The CTA flights are popular with many Britons coming to live or stay in western Turkey, including Izmir, Kuşadasi and Altınkum, on a short or long term basis as the flights land at Izmir Airport before flying on to northern Cyprus.


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[YFred]

AN AIRLINE and tour operator has lost a legal bid to overturn a 35-year-old ban on flights from the UK to northern Cyprus.

Cyprus Turkish Airlines (CTA) and its UK tour operator, CTA Holidays Limited, failed to secure a judicial review at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre.

The government argues lifting the ban would contravene the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation.

Currently, flights to northern Cyprus must land in Turkey first. CTA, which flies about 100,000 visitors from the UK to Northern Cyprus each year, says this increases flight times, fares and fuel emissions.

But Mr Justice Wyn Williams dismissed the airline's call for a review. CTA's lawyers argued the government's continuing refusal to lift the ban was "unlawful and unjust".

Permitting direct flights between UK airports and northern Cyprus would have "huge, symbolic importance" for a divided island with a painful modern history, they said.

CTA argued the ban had "absolutely no operational justification".

It added the government had misunderstood the Chicago Convention and there was also no justification under international law for banning direct flights.

The CTA flights are popular with many Britons coming to live or stay in western Turkey, including Izmir, Kuşadasi and Altınkum, on a short or long term basis as the flights land at Izmir Airport before flying on to northern Cyprus.


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You are a bit behind the times with the news old boy. Hope it was a nice trip.

[Oracle]

Good news is worth repeating ...

[YFred]

Make the most of it. Sooner or later it will be reversed one way or another.

[Oracle]

Hold on to that hope!

[YFred]

oh! you are hopeless, but I like you!

[Lit]

Good news is worth repeating ...

Indeed. Thanks, humanist, for posting this article.

[paliometoxo]

yes why would uk allow direct flights? if the trnc want direct flights they can remove the troops and unite the island instead of crying about A situation they put themselvs in

[Paphitis]

Make the most of it. Sooner or later it will be reversed one way or another.

After all the progress you made yesterday, you had to destroy it all by posting something so stupid....

How do you think direct flights are going to be possible when ICAO only recognises the RoC's Civil Aviation Department, and its right to declare legal and illegal ports of entry on the island?

ICAO is an arm of the UN, and the UN will not legalise Turkey's invasion which means there will only ever be one aviation state body on the island that is a member state of ICAO. So all in all, you have buckley's chance, and the British legal system also told you this, but what would they know?

[shahmaran]

It is all a matter of time Paphitis, and we have ALL the time in the world