News from THY - Turkish Airlines

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Turkish Airlines will commence flights from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen and Izmir to Belgrade in winter 2022/23 season.

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Turkish Airlines plans to carve out subsidiary AnadoluJet into a standalone company, resulting in a future stake sale, listing or another fund-raising move. Plans for a similar separation of the THY cargo operation have been slowed, as a spinoff would deliver only a “marginal contribution.”

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Turkish Airlines is shelving plans to acquire regional aircraft, which are centred on the A220-300 and E195-E2.

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Turkish Airlines plans to resume Istanbul – Shanghai Pu Dong service on 13 January 2023, with A350-900.

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Turkish Airlines is adding Istanbul – Palermo route from 05 Mary 2023, with Boeing 737-800.

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Turkish Airlines will relaunch its route to Lusaka (Zambia), with 2 flights per week from March 26, 2023 via Dar Es Salaam using a B737-Max8. The route had been suspended in 2020 due to covid. TK operated 3 times a week by A330-300 via Dar Es Salaam.

The plane will spend 25 hours in Zambia: arrival in Zambia at 01:50 and return to IST the next day at 02:50.

Zambia will onece again get a direct route to Europe.

Note that the Lusaka-Kigali opdt by RwandAir is optd in code share with Turkish Airlines (TK8406)

https://twitter.com/Mlandeli_Ndlela/sta ... 1900968965

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Turkish Airlines will purchase the remaining 20% stake in IFE provider Cornea Aviation Systems from Havelsan. THY will become the sole owner of Cornea through its subsidiary THY Teknik.

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A Turkish Airlines delegation visited Burundi in March 2023, for future flights between Istanbul and Bujumbura.

The company had planned to serve Burundi in 2015, but it never happened. https://isanganiro-org.translate.goog/2 ... 534265.htm

In my opinion if TK serves BJM, the flights it will be a tag service. TK operates up to one daily flight on on its routes to Sub-Saharan Africa, so I don't see that they will add flights to Entebbe in Uganda (ex: 10 flights per week, 3 of which would be operated via Bujumbura).

Porbabbly some flights to BJM will be operated via Kigali because Entebbe can in my opinion largely fill Turkish Airlines planes without a tag service. This is the case of Air Arabia, Emirates or Qatar Airways which serve EBB without tag service

Currently Istanbul-Kigali-Entebbe-Istanbul once a day

It could be like this. In all cases Entebbe keep daily service with TK either via BJM, KGL or without a tag.

Istanbul-Bujumbura-Kigali-Istanbul 2 or 3 times a week

Istanbul-Kigali-Entebbe-IST (4 or 5 times a week, in case if the 2 or 3 flights per week to Kigali are operated via BJM)

Istanbul-Entebbe-IST (4-5 times per week, if the 2-3 flights per week on BJM are operated via Kigali)

Or Kigali can be served on certain days without the tag via Entebbe (days when BJM will be served via BJM). Currently excluding RwandAir, only Ethiopian Airlines (2 flights per day) and Kenya Airways (up to 3 flights per day depending on the time of year) serve KGL without tag service. Even if ETH rarely operates flights to KGL via BJM.

Bujumbura appears on the Turkish Airlines website but impossible to make a reservation. RwandAir Kigali Bujumbura flights are operated in code share with Turkish Airlines (TK8400/01 https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... 400+%2F+01)


A Delegation from the Airline, Turkish Airlines, accompanied by the Chargé d'Affaires of the Turkish Diplomatic Mission in Burundi, paid a working visit this Thursday, March 16, 2023 to the Civil Aviation Authority of Burundi (A.A.C.B).

A Delegation of the Airline, Turkish Airlines, accompanied by the Chargé d'Affaires of the Turkish Diplomatic Mission in Burundi, paid a working visit this Thursday, March 16, 2023 to the Civil Aviation Authority of Burundi (A.A.C.B ).
This Delegation was welcomed by Ambassador Joël Nkurabagaya, CEO of AACB.
On this occasion, the two Parties exchanged, among other things, on the modalities for starting the flight operations of the aircraft of this airline in Burundi.

https://aacb.gov.bi/fr/at12/

[Darjeeling]

In LLB y'day:

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TK plans Australia with Melbourne launch in December, thrice a week via Singapore.