Bordeaux becomes Volotea’s new base; easyJet’s Southend base turns one; Turkish Airlines grows in Birmingham and Ljubljana; Jet2.com announces Eastern European expansion from East Midlands
anna.aero was invited to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport last week to celebrate the arrival of Turkish Airlines’ new base, which will result in 13 international routes this summer. We got to talk to the airport’s CEO about competition, the new planned airport for Istanbul, the growth in Turkish air travel and the chances of Istanbul winning the right to host the 2020 summer Olympics.
Having launched 30 new routes in the last year, in 2013 booming Turkish Airlines could overtake Delta Air Lines’ record at Atlanta by offering the most destinations from a single airport.
Turkish Airlines added extensions to its services from Istanbul Ataturk to both Male and Douala, and now flies respectively to Colombo in Sri Lanka and Libreville in Gabon.
Told you so!! Earlier in the week Turkish Airlines announced Constantinople to Constanta, one of the routes on the new route hit list anna.aero revealed in December.
Turkish Airlines adds Isfahan and Kermanshah in Iran, and Cameroon’s Douala and Yaounde to its Istanbul Ataturk network.
Turkish Airlines commence services to Sebha in Libya and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso; extend the Sao Paulo service to Buenos Aires Ezeiza.
Following on from this week’s Top Story where we discovered 27 soon-to-be announced Turkish Airlines routes, anna.aero sources have been in touch again to reveal nine further spokes that are on Turkish Airlines’ drawing board for 2013.
Monarch Airlines’ arrival in Friedrichshafen last week was a great showcase of the airport’s ability to promote new routes: anna.aero gives a closer look at the operation to find out what the new year might bring to Friedrichshafen.
anna.aero reveals from a top-level source which points on the map will be added to the nearly 200 destinations already connected to the Istanbul Atatürk hub in the near future.
Turkish Airlines starts circular route from Istanbul Atatürk to Mombasa in Kenya and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
