Turkiye’s flagship carrier Turkish Airlines was named Europe’s Best Airline for the eighth consecutive year by Skytrax, the global ranking body for the air industry. Turkish Airlines received their prestigious prize at the Skytrax World Airline Awards – also known as the ‘Oscars of the Aviation Industry’ on Tuesday at an event held at the […]
A leading Turkish budget airline is set to alleviate the need for Ercan-bound passengers from London to get off the plane for a fresh security check when it lands in Turkiye. From 31 October 2022, AnadoluJet will become the first airline to resume touchdown flights. It means passengers on its night flights from London Stansted […]
An airline owned by Turkish Airlines and Germany’s Lufthansa has been named the World’s Best Leisure Airline. SunExpress was presented with its award by airlines ranking body Skytrax in a ceremony in London last week. Known as the ‘Oscars of the aviation industry, this year’s Skytrax awards were based on the responses of 14 million […]
Conservative politician Sir Iain Duncan Smith has landed himself in hot water with British Turks after it emerged he supported the introduction of a new bill calling for the First World War massacres of Armenians in Anatolia to be recognised as a “genocide”. Ayşe Osman, head of the UK’s Turkish Cypriot umbrella body CTCA, has […]
There was drama of a positive kind on a flight taking evacuees from Afghanistan to Birmingham. One of the refugees, 26-year-old Soman Noori, went into labour on a Turkish Airlines flight from Dubai to Birmingham. The Afghan refugee, who had left Kabul with her husband and two young children the previous day, gave birth to […]
Turkish Airlines subsidiary Turkish Cargo has continued to grow in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic has seen many airlines grounded and revenues for the aviation sector plummet. Despite this challenging backdrop, Turkish Cargo’s revenue, market share and market volume are all up on 2019 figures. According to World Air Cargo Data (WACD), Turkish Cargo claimed […]
Five days after suspending all flights from Britain due to coronavirus mutation fears, the Turkish authorities have announced a partial restoration of services for Turkish citizens and foreign nationals with Turkish residency permits only. After assessing the risks from the newly identified more contagious variant of coronavirus in the UK and elsewhere, the Turkish authorities […]
Turkish Airlines has announced it is resuming flights between Turkey and the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) from Saturday, 20 June 2020. The airline will be operating four flights a week to Ercan Airport, Lefkoşa, until the end of the month. The carrier had been expected to resume its North Cyprus flights last week, […]
After an absence of nearly three months, flights between Turkey and Britain are restarting today, 11 June. The news was confirmed on social media by the British Embassy in Ankara. In a statement posted on its UK in Turkey Facebook page, Turkish Airlines will operate one daily flight from Istanbul Airport to London Heathrow, while its […]
Turkey’s biggest carrier Turkish Airlines has announced the continued suspension of its domestic and international flights. The news, posted on the company website on Tuesday, 28 April, stated that the suspension would run until 28 May, and was “in accordance with decisions taken by the official authorities” to help “protect public health against the novel […]
