Turkish Airlines

Flag carrier Turkish Airlines has temporarily suspended all flights to Israel, the airline announced on Jan. 25. 

Under the suspension, there are no Turkish Airlines flights to or from Israel for the period Jan. 26 to Jan. 31, said the company on Twitter.

Turkish prosecutors on Jan. 20 sought the maximum possible 12 years in prison each for a Turkish private airline official and two pilots accused of smuggling the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman out of Japan, Turkey's state news agency reported.

Turkey's national flag carrier Turkish Airlines is launching a 40 percent discount campaign for its international flights from April 1 to Dec. 31, the airline said on Jan. 12.

A Turkish Airlines (THY) cargo plane flying from Istanbul to Kazakhstan's Almaty city on Jan. 3 made an emergency landing in Istanbul as it encountered a flock of birds shortly after taking off from Atatürk Airport.

Full recovery of world air passenger travel may well take as long as 2023-24, as vaccination campaigns alone will not suffice to bring the market back to pre-pandemic levels, according to the chairman of national flag carrier Turkish Airlines.

Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency, İlker Aycı said 2021 will be a year of transition for the aviation sector.

Turkey's national flag carrier Turkish Airlines announced on Jan. 2 that flights from the U.K. to Turkey were suspended under travel restrictions due to the pandemic.

Meanwhile, the flights from Turkey to the U.K., and from the U.K. to other countries, including the transit flights, continue as planned, it noted.

Turkish Airlines will begin requiring passengers on overseas flights to submit negative PCR tests as of Dec. 30, the national flag carrier announced late on Dec. 26.

According to a statement posted on the company's official social media accounts, the requirement will come into effect with a two-day delay from the previously announced date.

Turkey's service sector exports amounted to $65 billion as of 2019, the chairman of Turkish Airlines said on Dec. 25. 

Turkey's flag carrier conducted an evacuation flight on Dec. 25 from the U.K. for those stranded as regular flights were halted because of the new strain of the coronavirus.  

A plane initially took off from Istanbul at noon with passengers who complied with coronavirus conditions and wanted to go to London.

With a groundbreaking new virus test available at check-in, with speedy results, Turkish-German joint venture SunExpress is looking to take the worry out of air travel in the age of coronavirus.