El Al suspends Antalia route, Turkish company takes over
Turkish-Dutch owned airline Corendon begins charter flight operations between Ben Gurion, Anatalia
The company will operate two weekly flights to Turkey, increasing the schedule to daily flights during the high season beginning in June 2007.
Sources in the Israeli tourism industry said that tourism wholesaler Eshet Tours had signed an exclusive $4 million agreement with the company for operation of the flight route for a period of one year, with an option to extend the term by an additional year.
Corendon Airlines, which was founded in 2000, is a joint Turkish-Dutch owned company.
The company is well known in Europe as a Turkish low-cost airline connecting Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands with Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria, through scheduled and charter flights.
Reprinted with permission of The Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute
