Turkish Airlines inaugural flight with San Francisco mural arrives at SFO (Chris McGinnis)
Today the Federal Aviation Administration lifted the ban on Turkish Airlines flights to the U.S. that it imposed last week during the coup attempt.
Flights to/from U.S. cities are expected to resume on Tuesday. An airline spokesperson tells TravelSkills that the first U.S. flight will depart on Tuesday, July 19 at 6:45 a.m. for New York-Kennedy.
Turkish flies nonstop from Istanbul to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington DC.
You can watch flight traffic over Istanbul here which shows flights from IST to other countries has already resumed– US flights should appear by tomorrow.
Here’s an official tweet about this from Turkish Airlines:
Attention to U.S passengers, all flights to and from the United States of America will resume as usual starting from July 19th.
— Turkish Airlines (@TurkishAirlines) July 18, 2016
Turkish Airlines’ stunning CIP lounge at Istanbul (Photo: Chris McGinnis)
It’s going to take a while until Americans chose to fly to or through Istanbul. That’s too bad considering its lovely lounge there. But it is certainly understandable. It should be interesting to watch Turkish Airlines respond to all this.
What about you? Would you flight Turkish Airlines now? How long would you wait to fly them again? Please leave your comments below.
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Flew Turkish Business Class about 3 years ago BUD-IST-JNB. using FF points. I would not hesitate to fly them again. Great Service, unfortunately, the new lounge in IST was not completed at that time (we had an 8 hour layover).
I’m scheduled to fly ATL-IST-DVK in Sept. I still plan on going. My godson is scheduled KUL-IST-ATL on July 30th and I’ve not looked at rebooking him. Will keep watching the news though. I love IST and the warmth of the majority of the Turkish people – hate all these events that have happened in this beautiful country.
thanks we’ll add
TK also flies nonstop to BOS, though it wasn’t in your list,
I had a return trip from Bali via IST to SFO in Sept. Fortunately I booked using UA points. Sunday night United was kind to waive change fees and let me rebook alternate flights via BKK-NRT-SFO. I really wanted to visit IST as well as try Turkish Airlines, but I’d rather have peace of mind and not worry.
I am heading to Delhi in January and was looking at TK from SFO. The J fares are competitive. I have yet to book but if things quiet down in that part of the world over the next couple of months, I will fly with TK.