Onur Air started today

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
31/03/2011 22:09

Onur Air starts its Istanbul – Ercan flights today. The first plane which took off from İstanbul at 9am arrived at Ercan Airport at around 10:15am.

Meanwhile, a cocktail will be hosted at the Girne Cratos Premium Hotel this evening to celebrate the launch of Onur Air flights to and from the TRNC.

President Derviş Eroğlu will also attend the cocktail which will start at 6pm.

stilluvithere



Joined: 03/12/2008
Posts: 765

Message Posted:
31/03/2011 22:56

I flew with Onur Air from Stansted to Ercan in 1992, lets hope they start flying to UK soon to give us a choice

mickyron


Joined: 05/07/2009
Posts: 130

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 00:40

We also flew with them, they were quite good. Why did they stop flying from England ?

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 01:27

Are these the flights from Cyprus Premier - if so they are charter flights and can only be sold as part of a holiday.

We can offer them including one weeks hotel and up to two weeks without the hotel so you can stay in your villa for two (or more weeks) but not for over three weeks.

Tom

http://www.flightholiday.co.uk

me-style


Joined: 03/08/2010
Posts: 150

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 08:31

Those why intend to change from THY, Pegasus and Atlas to Onur air, I wish you luck and don't count on any connecting flights out of Istanbul as they have a lot of delays.



Message 2, you flew Onur in 1992, its only 19 yeas ago and this makes a comment of no relevance!



Onur have been flying charter flights for tour operators the recent years as well and also there they have not been getting too high score on punctuallity.

susiesusie


Joined: 09/03/2009
Posts: 337

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 09:06

my mate is booked on a package holiday on sat 28th may . he says the airline is onur air!!! from manchester.

i questioned it but he is adamant.

susiesusie


Joined: 09/03/2009
Posts: 337

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 09:07

forgot to say it is from manchester

cooper


Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 09:15

Info here - http://www.transit-travel.com/kyrenia/onur_air_flights.htm

stilluvithere



Joined: 03/12/2008
Posts: 765

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 09:54

I was trying to point out that Onur is not a new airline.If only relevant comments were posted on this forum then it would be a lot smaller than it is

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 10:34

why not just fly to larnaca ?



no faffing around on the trrmac in turkey and door to door its quicker and usually much cheaper.............

Hoylemiller



Joined: 03/09/2010
Posts: 240

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 10:48

Agree with Nick,

I fly direct to Larnaca from Abu Dhabi no hanging around, theres either a taxi or Hire car waiting, changing in Turkey is a pain...

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 23:25

Karen Msg 6 - Your mate will have bought a package the same operator is offering Birmingham & London flights to Ercan (see my comments in Msg 4)

We can sell them to you too.

Offshore1


Joined: 18/05/2009
Posts: 26

Message Posted:
01/04/2011 23:56

I too flew with Onur Air to Ercan many times from 1993 to 1994 on flights from Stansted. At that time the Chairman of Onur Air was Tonguz Kazim who had been owned a chain of restaurants in London and had a family North Cyprus connection. In any event round about 1995 there was " management restructuring" within the company ie a big falling out , Tonguz ceased to have any role and Onur air ended their service to Ercan. In those pre 9/11 days there was a company policy that all passengers were invited to visit the flight deck which was great fun for the children - and the not so young. At that time they operated a fleet of highly mortaged but nearly new Airbus A 320s, their time keeping and service was OK but they currently get very indifferent passenger reviews.

Cyprusquest


Joined: 09/12/2008
Posts: 428

Message Posted:
02/04/2011 21:35

Am I correct to think Onur service the UK from Turkey but only with Charter Flights.?

blade


Joined: 19/06/2010
Posts: 1286

Message Posted:
02/04/2011 23:17

Offshore, you appear to know a lot about the company. I was told years ago they were the post planes, is that correct?

Offshore1


Joined: 18/05/2009
Posts: 26

Message Posted:
03/04/2011 18:28

I had occasion to visit the company on business in Istanbul in 1993 and met some of the senior management. At that time they were determined to be a cut above the type of Turkish airline who started up in the spring and were gone by the autumn leaving a pile of debt and impounded aircraft scattered around Europe with the cash having all been siphoned off by the directors. The set up they had at Ercan was up to the mark and my understanding was internal politics caused them to pull out of Cyprus. I really don't know if they had the mail cargo contract but if they did it would have been a "nice little earner"