Turkish Airlines Approved for More Flights into Australia

[justinbrett]

They announced that, but Singapore's aviation regulator says they've had nothing filed to the effect yet. Bit of a theme with TK...

No application from Turkish Airlines for planned S’pore-Australia flights, says CAAS

This is despite the Istanbul-based carrier going public with plans to fly from Istanbul to Australia with a layover in S'pore. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

I'm now thinking Bonza will be their domestic partner - they'd make a good match.

 

[Cosmo]

They announced that, but Singapore's aviation regulator says they've had nothing filed to the effect yet. Bit of a theme with TK...

No application from Turkish Airlines for planned S’pore-Australia flights, says CAAS

This is despite the Istanbul-based carrier going public with plans to fly from Istanbul to Australia with a layover in S'pore. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

were booked RTW tix with Turkish airlines for Aug 24 and the Bris-Sing segment is on qantas - no Turkish planes in or out expected even then.
So these additional Turkish flights are just a qantas grab and stitched Qatar up

 

[jase05]

were booked RTW tix with Turkish airlines for Aug 24 and the Bris-Sing segment is on qantas - no Turkish planes in or out expected even then.
So these additional Turkish flights are just a qantas grab and stitched Qatar up

Turkish haven’t received all the relevant approvals yet so of course anything you book now won’t be on Turkish in or out of Australia.

 

[marcojim]

Turkish Airlines to launch flights to Australia in March


Turkish Airlines confirmed to start IST - SIN - MEL flights three times weekly from March 16.

 

[Harrison_133]

Turkish Airlines to launch flights to Australia in March


Turkish Airlines confirmed to start IST - SIN - MEL flights three times weekly from March 16.

787-9 operating initially. Switches to A350-900 from April 2nd.

 

[RooFlyer]

Turkish Airlines to launch flights to Australia in March


Turkish Airlines confirmed to start IST - SIN - MEL flights three times weekly from March 16.

Fantastic! it’s going to be tough to choose between TK and QR but QR and Qsuites are probably going to come through until TK fully rolls out its new 'Crystal' business class.

Turkish Airlines’ all-new ‘Crystal’ business class suite

Get ready for a very new and very different entrant in the business class arms race.

www.executivetraveller.com

But I might have to do a Melbourne to Singapore run just to try them out in the meantime

 

[jase05]

Fantastic! it’s going to be tough to choose between TK and QR but QR and Qsuites are probably going to come through until TK fully rolls out its new 'Crystal' business class.

I think even then it might be hard to choose TK for most of the routes we would do as they use the Euro J on many of their Euro routes whereas you can get a QR wide body to most European places I want to go. They do have a very good product though and for some destinations I’d absolutely choose TK

 

[RooFlyer]

I think even then it might be hard to choose TK for most of the routes we would do as they use the Euro J on many of their Euro routes whereas you can get a QR wide body to most European places I want to go.

True, although I still loved my short haul IST-KIV-IST recently

 

[p--and--t]

So these additional Turkish flights are just a qantas grab and stitched Qatar up

Conspiracy theory

 

[marcojim]

787-9 operating initially. Switches to A350-900 from April 2nd.

Effective 07APR24 – 04OCT24.

TK168 IST1700 – 0845+1SIN1015+1 – 1940+1MEL 359 257
TK169 MEL2120 – 0250+1SIN0430+1 – 1040+1IST 359 136

Turkish Airlines Schedules Melbourne mid-March 2024 Launch — AeroRoutes

Published at 0700GMT 19JAN24 Turkish Airlines from mid-March 2024 is extending its network coverage to Australia, as the airline gradually opens reservation for service to Melbourne, effective 15MAR24. Initially the Star Alliance carrier will operate 3 weekly flights with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner o

www.aeroroutes.com

 

[aaa99]

Good to have another day flight from SIN-MEL. It is almost same as EK404. And the return is much better timing

 

[Mattg]

I'm already seeing a bit of award availability on MEL-IST, including in J

 

[Himeno]

Then they got the needed 5th freedom permissions from Singapore?

 

[Human]

I'm already seeing a bit of award availability on MEL-IST, including in J

But interestingly there doesn't seem to be availability after late October (whereas there's plenty of availability on Turkish Airlines' other routes even as late as January 2025). It looks like they're anticipating a change in the schedule over the (northern) winter?

I'm excited about this. The Turkish Airlines lounge in Istanbul is the only lounge I've ever visited where I genuinely wished I had more time there. And being able to sip Turkish coffee at 40,000 feet is sublime!

 

[jase05]

Then they got the needed 5th freedom permissions from Singapore?

Website is a bit of a mess but they do appear to be selling just the MEL-SIN flight

 

[henrus]

Website is a bit of a mess but they do appear to be selling just the MEL-SIN flight

Yep with a shocking flight time and price, all one way MEL-SIN flights have been loaded at $1820 which for that price you can get SQ PE or ScootPlus. Return MEL-SIN flights loaded at $3137. To be fair they are Full fare M bucket economy tickets (still Y and B is higher).

 

[AIRwin]

Yep with a shocking flight time and pric

Turkish un-Delight

 

[Mattg]

Yep with a shocking flight time and price, all one way MEL-SIN flights have been loaded at $1820 which for that price you can get SQ PE or ScootPlus. Return MEL-SIN flights loaded at $3137. To be fair they are Full fare M bucket economy tickets (still Y and B is higher).

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My guess is that either the MEL-SIN prices will level out at a reasonable level in the coming weeks, or TK has priced them deliberately high because they want to reserve most of the seats for passengers flying all the way through to IST (and beyond).

 

[elanshin]

Also possibly set as placeholder for now before their marketing and revenue team really work out what they want.

 

[Wanderlust_tim]

I'm already seeing a bit of award availability on MEL-IST, including in J

Which program?