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Date: February 17, 2012 | Written By admin
Istanbul, 17 February 2012 – Speaking at a recent conference held by the Union of European Turkish Democrats meeting in Germany, Mr Temel Kotli, Turkish Airlines General Manager, announced the company is adding 8 new flights to its African route network of 18 destinations. Kotli said . “Africa is increasingly important for Turkey and Turkish [...]
Date: February 16, 2012 | Written By admin
Turkish airlines finished 2011 with a big array of new flight routes, and has started 2012 in the same way. At the back end of last year Turkish airlines made the headlines for being quick to resume flights into Libya as soon as the infrastructure allowed it in September, it also launched a wide-array of [...]
Date: January 27, 2012 | Written By admin
We have the latest from Gazipasa airport in Alanya, and while it unfortunately contains no news of direct UK flights, we can tell you that the airport is set to bring online a much wider array of flights in 2012. Our contact, Murat Sen, a spokesperson for airport operators TAV told us that “quite large [...]
Date: December 23, 2011 | Written By admin
20 December 2011, Istanbul – According to Turkish Airlines General Manager Temel Kotli, the airline has had a very successful 2011 and will add 10 new global destinations in 2012 as well as adding 18 new aircraft to fleet of 178 aircraft. “The new destinations to be added until the New Year will make THY [...]
Date: December 2, 2011 | Written By admin
Last week saw Istanbul Ataturk’s already award-winning global destination coverage increased further, when China Southern announced new flights to the airport from Beijing via Urumqi in the northwest. The flights start running Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, served by 191 seat 757-200s. However, there are plans to expand on this quickly if demand is sufficient on [...]
Date: November 10, 2011 | Written By admin
From its hub at Istanbul Ataturk, Turkish Airlines now offers a wider range of non-stop flights than any other carrier does from a single airport. Turkish Airlines now flies non-stop from Ataturk to 172 destinations around the world, leaving its nearest competitor Lufthansa some way behind flying to 158 destinations from Frankfurt, and Air France [...]
Date: November 3, 2011 | Written By admin
British Airlines is looking to further increase the number of transit flights to and from Istanbul, according to a manager with the firm. Gavin Halliday, who is the general manager of the firm’s Europe and Africa operations said: “Not only has the number of people visiting Turkey increased, the number of transit passengers has reached [...]
Date: October 27, 2011 | Written By admin
27 October 2011, Istanbul – According to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently released data Turkey is now one of the world’s favourite tourism destinations with over 25 million visitors in the first 9 months of 2011. In September alone almost 4 million visitors went to Turkey, an increase of over 12 percent [...]
Date: October 21, 2011 | Written By admin
Yet more new flights to the bustling Istanbul Sabiha Gocken airport were announced this week, when Pegasus Airlines launched a new route, flying thrice weekly between the airport and Kosovo capital Pristina. Competing on the route from Istanbul’s other airport (Ataturk) are Turkish Airlines’ daily service as well as Atlasjet’s two flights a week. In [...]
Date: October 7, 2011 | Written By admin
Another day another dollar and another week another new flight for Istanbul airports. This week we see the announcement of another new budget flight linking Manchester in the UK and Istanbul from growing operator Jet 2.com. This is Jet2.com’s first flight into Istanbul, all though it does have substantial coverage of Turkey, with a particularly [...]
