News from THY - Turkish Airlines

[hakan]

Timetable available for some new destinations:

IST-Sao Paulo-Buenos Aires started yesterday as 4 times a week

IST-Sebha is starting on 13.December as 3 times a week

IST-Niamey-Vogadugu is starting on 15.December as 3 times a week

IST-Isfahan is starting on 20.December as twice weekly

IST-Yaounde-Douala is starting on 21.December as 4 times a week.

Source: http://www.airkule.com/default.asp?page=haber&id=13259

[sn26567]

anna.aero today has published an interesting article on THY, showing the importance of Istanbul as a transfer hub. THY has disclosed (leaked?) figures that are usually hard to get. Interesting reading if you have a few minutes:

http://www.anna.aero/2012/12/12/the-big ... ping-list/

[Charlie Roy]

http://www.anna.aero/2012/12/14/route-f ... kathmandu/

More THY news from anna.aero. Sorry if some of these new possible routes have been listed here before. ROTTERDAM is probably the most interesting one for this forum, as well as the African destinations:

• Alicante
  Juba
  Kathmandu
  Kuala Lumpur
  Lankaran
  Mazar-i-Sarif
  Ndjamena
  Rotterdam
  Seville

[hakan]

Turkish CAA has signed 3 new bilateral agreements yesterday. They are with Brunei, Seychelles and Uruguay. I guess sooner or later we will be reading about THY opening destinations in those countries.

[globetrotter]

May add Hargeisa, its capital of the self-proclaimed country called Somaliland.

TK Cargo are also expanding, with Luton already started and Chengdu from next year.

[hakan]

THY has announced that based on aircraft availability and gaining the necessary permits they do intend to fly to the following destinations in 2013:

Istanbul Ataturk- Bogota (Colombia)

Istanbul Ataturk- Aqaba (Jordan)

Istanbul Ataturk- Bamako (Mali)

[globetrotter]

Kuala Lumpur resumes after a decade long suspension, four times weekly from April.

Tallin and Villnius start from June thrice weekly.

[Charlie Roy]

Constanta starts April.

[globetrotter]

Aqaba now confirmed from April.

[hakan]

THY has told the Turkish media and public that they have started talks with MNG Technic about partnership or taking over the company due to increasing need of maintenance because of fast expanding THY fleet.

http://www.airporthaber.com/havacilik-h ... 43112.html

[hakan]

THY has sent a statement to Istanbul Stock Exchange that they will fly to 2 new destinations based on aircraft availability and gaining necessary permits:

Istanbul Ataturk-Ahvaz (Iran)

Istanbul Ataturk-Nantes (France)

[Boeing767copilot]

Turkish Airlines adds yet another destination in the US. With existing services to Chicago, New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles, as from April 1st Turkish Airlines will begin flights to Houston. Flights between Istanbul and Houston will initially operate four times per week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays., Beginning in July, flights between the two cities will be increased to 6 times weekly with the addition of Wednesday and Sunday flights. This brings the total number of cities served to 220, in 98 countries, further expanding Turkish Airlines' extensive global network. And with the addition of Houston, Turkish Airlines links the rapidly growing Texas market to its global hub at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.

[Boeing767copilot]

Turkish Airlines adds Kuala Lumpur to its growing network, as from 25th April it will be operated 3 times per week on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

[rwandan-flyer]

It seems that Turkish wants to serve Asmara (Eritrea)

[theeuropean]

Turkish is also looking at starting a year-round 3-4 weekly service to Heraklion according to Greek papers

[tangolima]

Hello

TK added Antananarivo (Madagascar) to their network.

Greetings,

[hakan]

THY is launching 4 weekly Istanbul Ataturk-Kathmandu flights as of 1.September.2013.

[tangolima]

Hello

TK announced its 224 destination.....Gassim (Saudi-Arabia)

Greetings,

[hakan]

Istanbul Ataturk-Malta (MLA) flights are starting on 25.May.2013 as 3 times a week.

TK1369 IST-MLA every Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday 12.35-14.20
TK1370 MLA-IST every Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday 15.15-18.35
Local time

[sn26567]

Which aircraft to Malta?