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 Mayors to Negotiate over Plovdiv - Istanbul Charter Flights

Mayors to Negotiate over Plovdiv - Istanbul Charter Flights

9/3/2008 10:00:23 AM

Plovdiv Mayor Slavcho Atanasov and his Istanbul counterpart Kadir Topbas are to hold talks on Friday over starting charter flights between the two cities.

Bulgarian and Turkish businessmen show great interest in the possibility to fly between the cities and this will be the main topic during the meeting with Mr Topbas, the Plovdiv mayor said.

A charter service between Plovdiv and Istanbul could start in a year, the executive director of the Plovdiv Airport, Yanko Yankov, commented.

SNA

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