The Philippine government has proposed to the Turkish government that the Air Services Agreement (ASA) for new entitlements between the two countries be concluded in 2010.
Porvenir Porciuncula, Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) deputy executive director, said “the Turkish government wants it (ASA) to be done this November or December, but we have our commitments already. We then proposed it to be done by 2010.”
On the other hand, Undersecretary Franklin Ebdalin of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and concurrently one of the members of the Philippine panel, said “the Turkish airlines want new routes and we are studying on that.”
Ebdalin said that airline operators in Turkey could very well capitalize on the growing tourism industry of the Philippines and operating a direct or even a chartered flight here could jump-start more economic cooperation between the two countries. (more…)
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