Erhan Arıklı, Minister of Public Works and Transport, said, “The name of our new airline will be ‘Mavi Girne Airlines’”.
Minister of Public Works and Transport, Erhan Arıklı, said that test flights will be carried out at the new airport on October 29, and three important flights are planned to be made to the airport on November 15.
Arıklı said, “The name of our new airline will be ‘Mavi Girne Airlines’”.
According to the statement made by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Minister Erhan Arıklı made statements about the new airport, which is planned to be opened on November 15, and the new airline.
In the TV program he attended, Arıklı said, “Maybe President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will land there, maybe Russian planes will land there on November 15. We have come to the final preparations to establish our own national airline company, and we are waiting for our airline company’s plane to land on the runway. I hope all three of them will.”
Emphasizing that there is no legal obstacle for the Russian plane to land at Ercan Airport, Arıklı pointed out that the flight from Moscow can be made.
Stating that the previously good relations between Southern Cyprus and Russia have deteriorated after the USA lifted the arms embargo on Southern Cyprus.
Arıklı pointed out that the landing of Russian planes in the TRNC would contain a politically important message.
Stating that there will be no obstacle in the realization of flights to Ercan Airport with the political will, Arıklı said that Russian flights will have a significant positive effect on the economy of the TRNC.
Arıklı, who stated that they were in talks with two airline companies from Russia, pointed out that the next year will be productive in terms of tourism in the TRNC, with direct flights from Moscow.
Erhan Arıklı also drew attention to the expensiveness of flight ticket prices and said, “Air ticket prices are very expensive. Many citizens living in the TRNC prefer to go from the South to Europe. The lack of direct flights increases the cost at this point.”
Arıklı said, “Ercan Airport can be granted the status of domestic airlines of Turkey and there must be political will for this”.
Stating that the establishment of the national airline company has reached an important stage and is almost completed, Arıklı said, “The name of our new airline will be ‘Mavi Girne Airlines’. We’re trying to get it to November 15th and it doesn’t seem to go wrong. It will start with 5 planes and we aim to grow even more after that.”
Pointing out that flights will be made to Turkey in the first place, Arıklı said that one of the first flights will be made to Trabzon.
Arıklı said, “We have flights to destinations such as Adana, Istanbul and Ankara, but there are serious Black Sea people living in our country and when they want to go to the Black Sea, they suffer a serious loss of time and money. The airline company we will establish will hopefully make one of its first flights to Trabzon. Let me give the good news to the Black Sea cognates in Cyprus,” he said.
