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[shahmaran]

you take off from London and u land onto Ercan and thats that! heheh stop confusing people PEOPLE! i have done it and so has a few other ppl i know, like VP says, it all depends if anyone needs to get off in Turkey..

[Pyrpolizer]

Ercan takes around 4.5 hours from london, ive doen it before Turkish airlines has direct flights !

There is a big difference, between a "Direct" flight and a "Non-Stop" flight. Sure you can have a "Direct "flight from the UK with Turkish Airlines, as long as then land in Turkey somewhere, but they can not have a "Non-Stop" flights.

Although, Viewpoint in the past, not too long ago, claimed to have flown "Non- Stop" from UK to Ercan by Turkish Airlines.

It's possible the pilots fell asleep, and just flew-by Istanbul in a B-Line to Ercan. Stranger things have happened.

The deciding factor is if their are no passengers getting off at Turkey the plane comes direct to the Ercan TRNC without touching down in Turkey.

Is this still happening VP. If so I stand corrected about it stopping.

Only ocassionally as there are always passengers getting off in Turkey.

See? All you have to do is just stop the bloody Turks from getting on your planes. Then you will have as many direct flights as you like.

[shahmaran]

ye thoose bloody Turks, how dare they stick their nose into Greek business...

[Pyrpolizer]

@ Kikapu.

What VP said really happened my friend. The question is how?
Well here is how:
The flight starts as London_Turkey with a very specific flight number and very specific air route to travel.
It is supposed to land on Turkey and then take a new flight number (internal for Turkey) and fly to Cyprus.
What the pilots did in those cases was to change flight codes on air and follow a different route.

During that "by-passing" and while the plane is not following any internationally accepted route too many things can happen, one of which is collide with another one on air.
When this happens there is too much confussion on air traffic controllers everywhere.
I wouldn't personally risk my life for such a trip.

[Pyrpolizer]

ye thoose bloody Turks, how dare they stick their nose into Greek business...

I thought direct flights were your bussiness

[shahmaran]

ye coz Ercan is every so busy!

[shahmaran]

hahaha man if i did really have any business i wouldnt be here annoying you guys...

[andri_cy]

Oh stop wining that it takes 5 hrs. It takes me 20 to go home...
That's why I havent tried it with a 4 year old yet...

[Kikapu]

@ Kikapu.

What VP said really happened my friend. The question is how?
Well here is how:
The flight starts as London_Turkey with a very specific flight number and very specific air route to travel.
It is supposed to land on Turkey and then take a new flight number (internal for Turkey) and fly to Cyprus.
What the pilots did in those cases was to change flight codes on air and follow a different route.

During that "by-passing" and while the plane is not following any internationally accepted route too many things can happen, one of which is collide with another one on air.
When this happens there is too much confussion on air traffic controllers everywhere.
I wouldn't personally risk my life for such a trip.

When we had this conversation a while back between VP, Kifeas, and myself, I did make the point, that, the flight would need to have 2 separate flight numbers. One for international purpose, ie UK to Turkey, and one for domestic purpose ie, Turkey to Ercan. I wonder if the planes are insured against crashes occurring on it's second leg of the flight, if it does not make a landing on the first leg.?

[andri_cy]

I am sure that the insurance companies would use that same argument , if something ever happened.