{"id":25960,"date":"2010-11-17T05:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T03:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=25960"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:14:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:14:39","slug":"turkish-airlines-plans-expansion-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/17\/turkish-airlines-plans-expansion-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines plans expansion in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By IBTimes Staff Reporter | November 16, 2010 7:12 AM EST<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25962\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25962\" title=\"(Photo: REUTERS\/Anatolian Anatolian) A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkish-airlines.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: REUTERS\/Anatolian Anatolian) A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-400\" width=\"690\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkish-airlines.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkish-airlines-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: REUTERS\/Anatolian Anatolian) A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-400<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Turkish Airlines is mulling over starting flights from destinations in South India, Levent Bilman, Turkish Ambassador to India, told ENS, adding that this would connect Indian travelers to 93 places across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turkish Airlines is exploring new destinations in India. Talks are on with civil aviation authority for connecting Istanbul with Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently operating seven flights from Mumbai and Delhi, the airline plans to increase its services with more than 14 flights a week.<\/p>\n<p>According to travel industry experts, Turkish Airlines will lure Indian travelers mainly for its connectivity to Europe, including destinations such as Germany, France, the UK and Russia. The airline\u2019s connectivity to Middle East and Africa would be another attraction, they pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism industry officials note that more than half the tourists visiting Europe and Russia transit through Istanbul. Therefore, Turkish Airlines\u2019 increased service between India and Turkey would be a tourist-friendly move.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Airlines is expanding services globally. Recently the airline resumed services between Istanbul and Moscow with four flights a week, and launched nonstop flights from Istanbul to Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>International Business Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By IBTimes Staff Reporter | November 16, 2010 7:12 AM EST Turkish Airlines is mulling over starting flights from destinations in South India, Levent Bilman, Turkish Ambassador to India, told ENS, adding that this would connect Indian travelers to 93 places across Europe. &#8220;Turkish Airlines is exploring new destinations in India. Talks are on with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":25962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846,194],"tags":[589],"class_list":["post-25960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-india","tag-thy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}