“I’m off to Lebanon and Syria,” announces Jeroen van Marle casually. (I should stress that the Foreign Office warns against travel to parts of the former and all of the latter). After his visit he will be heading from Damascus to Berlin.
“While planning travel I came across offers for ‘self-transfer’ tickets that were attractively priced,” Jeroen reports. “The best flights were from Damascus via Istanbul to Berlin on Turkish Airlines. But booking through companies like Mytrip and Gotogate was much cheaper – if I was prepared to accept the hassle of checking in again at Istanbul.”
