Turkish Airlines Firms Santiago Launch

Beginning Dec. 18, the airline company will certainly run 4 once a week flights linking its Istanbul Airport center and Santiago’s Arturo Merino Benítez International Flight terminal using Airbus A350-900 airplane. Nevertheless, solution will certainly not be nonstop, yet instead will certainly be a continuation of the carrier’s existing flights to São Paulo, Brazil.

According to data from OAG Schedules Analyser, Turkish Airlines’ one-stop solution from Istanbul to Santiago will be the Chilean funding’s eighth link to Europe and the first direct link between Chile and Turkey.

Currently, the Santiago-Madrid market is offered nonstop by both Iberia and LATAM Airlines Group, with LATAM likewise providing a one-stop choice using Bogota. Air France runs nonstop flights between Paris and Santiago, while Iberia and British Airways attach Santiago with Barcelona and London Heathrow, specifically. In addition, KLM provides service from Amsterdam with a stop in Buenos Aires.

Turkish Airlines presently flies to São Paulo Guarulhos International Airport 11 times weekly– 7 of which remain to Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini International Flight Terminal, Argentina. A fifth-freedom trip to Santiago will certainly now be marked onto the four roundtrip frequencies that presently operate nonstop in between Istanbul and São Paulo.

Turkish Airlines is set to strengthen its reach right into Latin America this December with the launch of its inaugural guest flights to Chile, ending up being the 8th country in the area offered by the service provider.

Speaking With Air Travel Week at the Farnborough Airshow in July, Turkish Airlines Chairman Ahmet Bolat exposed that Santiago was a location under analysis, along with Peru’s funding Lima. The airline likewise plans to begin flying to Rio de Janeiro after Turkey and Brazil relocated to liberalize flight in January.