ushuaia

Turkish Airlines plans Mexico City and Sydney service within 2018.

Turkish Airlines chairman İlker Aycı stated the carrier plans to expand its presence in Asia and Latin America (Hurriyet Daily News, 15-Sep-2017). Mr Aycı identified Mexico City and Sydney as planned destinations. Mr Aycı said: “It is not possible to fly directly from Mexico City. Instead, we plan to have a direct flight by refuelling in Cancun”. Mr Aycı added the launch of service to Sydney is expected in 2018.

CAPA – Centre for Aviation, in a report entitled: ‘Turkish Airlines part 3: seeks to boost partnerships in Asia and Australia’, stated (15-May-2017) the carrier previously considered serving Melbourne and Sydney via Bali, Jakarta or Singapore, however CEO Bilal Ekşi said one stop flights to Australia are not currently in the network plan.

Source:
https://blueswandaily.com/turkish-ai...ydney-service/

starflyergold

How many times have we heard Sydney before? That said the impending purchase of 40 Dreamliners may bring this closer.

ermis177

Mexico City would be quite nice. I cant find a decent J fare to Mexico City. Last time i had to pay 1600 euros for LH PE.

cheltzel

If you are talking about a nonstop IST-SYD, I think it is beyond the range of the 789 without seriously curtailing passenger & freight loads. It might require a 77L or a 345.

a330boston

Maybe its not necessarily a non-stop. Could there be a 5th freedom segment in there?

cheltzel

Agreed. Just trying to say that the SYD route is not dependent on the 789.

tcmb99

gulf carriers can fly direct to SYD and turkish wants a piece of that market really bad. i think it is the distance and logistics that is keeping them from making a push.

cheltzel

But there is a huge difference in distance. DOH-SYD is 7700 miles. IST-SYD is over 9200 miles. TK would have to do something like IST-PER-SYD if they wanted something marketed as a direct flight to OZ.

dvs7310

DOH-AKL is 9032 miles and somehow QR is pulling that off. It won't happen with the existing fleet, they would have to get the A359 within a year, a bit optimistic, but could happen.

TPJ

IMHO SYD looks like a likely candidate for 'New TK Destinations for 2019', 'New TK Destinations for 2020', 'New TK Destinations for 2021' threads

cheltzel

QR is flying a 77L on that flight. It has a significantly longer range that the 789. The 359ULR is supposed to have a range that exceeds the 77L but it will not be available until sometime next year at the earliest.

So far the longest route for the 789 is the planned QF nonstop between PER and LHR. A flight slightly longer than 9000 miles. The QF 789 flying the route has a seriously reduced passenger load (236 passengers). The NZ 789 for example carries over 280 passengers in a 789.

The reduced passenger capacity (and I assume a similar reduction in freight) has to end up in a poor CASM for this length of 789 flight. I also expect the 359ULR will have a limited market like the 77L and 345 have. Does TK have any of the ULR variant of the 359 on order?

ushuaia

Turkish Airways has announced that it has added Samarkand to its flight network. The first flight is announced on March 16, 2018.

Source in Turkish:
http://www.airporthaber.com/thy-habe...ta-baslyo.html

ushuaia

The Incorporation has decided to start operating scheduled flights, based on fleet availability, to Krasnodar of Russia.

Source: Announcement of BORSA Istanbul at 9th Oct 2017:
https://www.kap.org.tr/en/Bildirim/633922

ushuaia

Turkish Airlines Launches a New Route to Aqaba

Istanbul – Aqaba (AQJ) – Istanbul flights are planned as 3 flights per week and will be launched as of March 18, 2018.

Source:
http://www.turkishairlines.com/en-in...route-to-aqaba

lingua101

SIN may be?