D-8 Cooperation in Civil Aviation is progressing In Turkey-Pakistan

Karachi, Pakistan | July 17, 2007 by D-8 Secretariat

As a top five international airlines, Turkish Airlines has asked the Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan to allow her to operate seven flights a week from Karachi to Istanbul and back.

The Executive Vice-President of the Turkish Airlines, Orhan Sivrikaya, said that they wish Pakistan to liberalized their aviation policies to allow major airliners of the world such as the Turkish Airlines to operate one daily flight from their major cities.

Senior journalists from several major print and electronic media organizations are now in Turkey on a familiarization trip, jointly organized by the Turkish Airlines and the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism as part of their campaign to promote tourism in their country. Senior officials of the Turkish Airlines, including its Country Manager for Pakistan Levend Arisoy, the Turkish minister of culture and Turkish and local travel agencies' representatives were also present at the meeting.

The Turkish Airlines EVP told visiting journalists that Karachi is not the only destination that they wish to head for. The airline is soon to start flights from another destination in Pakistan such as Islamabad, or Lahore. He said despite Islamabad and Ankara having cordial relations, people of the two countries were not aware of cultures, cities, historic places and traditions of each other, adding the Turkish Airlines, in collaboration with their ministry, was planning to enhance people-to-people contact through increased tourism.

Sivrikaya said Pakistan was an important route for his airline and last year they transported a large number of people, including businessmen and tourists, to and from Karachi and Islamabad.

According to him, around 20 million people prefer to fly with the Turkish Airline and it is now becoming a competitor for the worldís top-ranking airlines. He observed that tourism was an important part of Turkeyís economy and every year hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world visited the country.

He told a questioner that his airline was operating flights from two destinations from India, New Delhi and Mumbai, and soon it would start flights from Bangladesh, another potential and important destination for the Turkish Airlines.

D-8 Secretariate are pleased with this encouraging development, and wish that Pakistani and Turkish Civil Aviation can soon deepen their cooperation closely. D-8 is scheduled to have a second meeting of D-8 Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in September 2007, in Teheran, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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