Turkish Airline based in Istanbul the capital of Turkey, has announced launching flights to various US destinations from East Africa via Istanbul. The airline office in Kampala, Uganda has declared that Turkish Airline will operate nonstop flights to Washington DC from Istanbul. These new flight routes will also make available convenient connections for flights to Uganda and from. Whereas, other East Africa destination connected with US through Istanbul will include flights to Nairobi in Kenya and Flights to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
At present, Turkish airline operates four flights a week However once the new schedule and route is launched the airline will be operating daily flights to Istanbul, form where connections will take off to Washington and return vice versa. The daily flights will become operations after the B777 aircraft are delivered to Turkish Airline.
The airline has also exhibited interest in starting flights to New York from summer 2011. However no exact dates of the launch are yet given. The airline will offer double daily flights to New York and increase flights to Los Angeles and Chicago to daily departures. Many other US destinations are in the final stages of planning, and details will be released in due course.
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