Turkish to boost flights across the former Yugoslavia
Turkish Airlines plans to increase its frequencies to a number of cities in the former Yugoslavia this summer as it prepares to fully move to its new hub in Istanbul on March 3. Notably, Turkish Airlines will maintain the greatest number of flights within the former Yugoslavia to Sarajevo this summer with three daily services planned from the very start of the 2019 summer season. The airline will maintain a total of 21 weekly flights from Istanbul. Furthermore, it will run over 220 regular charter flights from Antalya to the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from late May until mid-September. Services will be maintained by its subsidiary AnadoluJet. Turkish is also considering introducing a second destination in the country, to Mostar, but will do so only if it manages to negotiate subsidies with local authorities, similar to the ones enjoyed by Croatia Airlines and Eurowings, which maintain flights to the city.
In Croatia, Turkish Airlines will operate double daily flights to Dubrovnik, up from eleven per week last summer. The additional frequencies will be launched at the end of June. The carrier handled a total of 70.339 passengers from Croatia's third busiest airport in 2018, up 27.1% on the year before. It accounted for 2.2% of all passengers and was Dubrovnik's sixth busiest. Turkish recently noted, "Our plan is to launch another route to Croatia so we can better connect the country to the world and bring even more tourists". In cooperation with the Croatian National Tourist Board, Turkish Airlines is currently promoting Zagreb and Dubrovnik across Asia.
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The Turkish carrier will also grow its operations to Podgorica by adding an additional flight to the Montenegrin capital for a total of fourteen per week. "Turkish Airlines currently flies to every capital city in the region such as Belgrade, Sarajevo, Podgorica and Ljubljana. Before we decide on introducing a new route or increasing frequencies within our destination network, our team of experts conducts a number of studies focusing on various aspects and taking into account the performance of our existing destinations, which also plays a deciding role in our network expansion. In addition, it is important to take note of various changes on the market and have initiative", the company's Country Manager for Croatia, Ugur Cantimur, said recently.
Despite attempts to increase frequencies and capacity to Belgrade, Turkish Airlines will continue to operate doubly daily flights between its hub and the Serbian capital this summer. In 2018, the Serbian Civil Aviation Directorate rejected the carrier's application to operate one of its two daily services with a wide-body Airbus A330-200 aircraft throughout the entire summer season and later rejected the its request to add an additional four weekly flights between Istanbul and Belgrade as of September 2018.
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