The Israeli couple Mordi and Natalie Oknin are still in custody and according to a Turkish court decision, they are expected to remain in custody for another three weeks.
Israeli officials are already involved in the purpose of releasing them after they photographed Erdogan's house from a skyscraper and the tourism industry initially estimated that the arrest would lead to a wave of cancellations on flights to Turkey.
An examination we conducted with several leading agencies in Israel, including a group of vacation lines and an aviation relations group, shows that there is no wave of cancellations and there is no significant decrease in the rate of bookings.
Nir Mazor, VP of Aviation Relations, reports that "there is a certain slowdown in the pace of new bookings, but there is no significant cancellation trend, we do not feel anything dramatic."
Turkish Airlines - one of the most active companies at Ben Gurion Airport, Photo: Photo: Coco
The holiday lines group reports that during Saturday quite a few new bookings arrived in Turkey and that even there, no significant cancellations were recorded, "Many of the flights through us land in Antalya, about an hour and a half flight from Istanbul and tourists are not afraid, they continue to fly," says Ilan Shalev. The group.
Various travel companies point out the reasons why there are not too many cancellations to Turkey: "Many passengers continue on connecting flights from Turkey to further destinations, so they do not really enter Turkey and do not enter into this situation. In our conversations with quite a few customers from the Arab sector, they do not "And they constitute a very significant share of those flying for vacation in the country. There are also quite a few Jewish vacationers who fly to Turkey and many of them are not afraid and say that they will just be careful and not do things that are forbidden."
There are currently no cancellations of flights by Turkish Airlines or Pegasus, the only two companies that operate direct flights to Turkey, as Israeli airlines do not fly to the country.
The tourism industry estimates that if the provision continues to branch out, the impact may be more significant.