Turkish Airlines Sees Malaysia As Top 5 Asian Revenue Contributor.

14th March, 2013

Turkish Airlines Sees Malaysia As Top 5 Asian Revenue Contributor.

KUALA LUMPUR - Turkey's national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, en route to resuming its Kuala Lumpur-Istanbul direct flights on April 25, is confident Malaysia will be one of the top five revenue contributors to its Asian operations.

General Manager for Singapore Cengiz Inceosman said the airline discontinued the Kuala Lumpur-Istanbul via Bangkok flights in 2002 as the route was not commercially viable back then.

"We have been planning to resume this service for the past three years but we had a shortage of aircraft back then. We picked Malaysia because we already have a partner here (Malaysia Airlines), and we see a huge potential for this market," he told a media briefing today, adding that Turkish Airlines eyes more than 80 per cent load factor.

Inceosman said the airline would also leverage on the Umrah market here to Jeddah and Madinah via its Istanbul hub, by offering three to four flights daily. The KL-Istanbul service, priced from RM2,000 for return tickets, will kick-start with three flights weekly, increasing to four flights weekly from June 17.

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