Turkish Airlines starts daily flights from Delhi to Istanbul

New Delhi: The Turkish Airlines on Monday launched daily flights from Delhi and Mumbai to Istanbul and wants to connect Hyderabad and Chennai in the next phase of expansion in India.
"We are studying other routes in India. The destinations include Hyderabad and Chennai. We may start these flights from 2010 but not this year," the airline's CEO Temel Kotil said here.
With seven flights from Mumbai and Delhi, he said the airline has exhausted its existing rights of 14 services a week, but expressed hope that these would be increased in the next bilateral air traffic talks between India and Turkey. The Turkish carrier so far had four flights a week from Delhi and three from Mumbai.
Responding to questions, Kotil said the main attraction for Indian travellers to fly on Turkish Airlines would be its connectivity to Europe (including Russia), Middle East and Africa.
He said the airline connected even cities like Lyons in France, which would help a passenger to fly to such cities directly, instead of changing flights again.
With the launch of daily flights from Mumbai and Delhi today, the airline would be increasing the number of seats by 20 per cent, Kotil said.
02/02/09 PTI/The Hindu

To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline

Categories: Foreign Feb 2009