Turkish Airlines Increases Flights to China

Turkish Airlines is increasing the number of flights departing from Istanbul to various international cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Beirut, Tunis and Skopje.

The current Istanbul-Beijing-Shanghai-Istanbul through flight of Turkish Airlines will be operated as 10 separate nonstop flights, namely 5 days Istanbul-Beijing-Istanbul and 5 days Istanbul-Shanghai-Istanbul from June 29, 2009.

According to new schedule, flights to Beijing will operate every day except Tuesdays and Saturdays, and flights to Shanghai will run every day other than Mondays and Thursdays.

Turkish Airlines has also rearranged its flights to Beirut, Tunis, Skopje, Sanaa as well.

Sanaa flights will be raised to 4 times a week from 3 times a week starting on June 4, Tunis flights to 7 times week from 5 starting on June 23, Skopje flights to 7 times a week from 5 starting today (June 8) and finally Beirut flights to 2 flights a day from 10 times a week starting on June 9.

Turkish Airlines also launched a cargo service to Tirana via Milano on June 7. The cargo service to Tirana, the capital city of Albania will operate once a week.

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