You Can Now Fly Direct To Istanbul

Turkish Airways celebrated its model new Seattle-Istanbul route with a June 15, 2022, ribbon slicing ceremony. This follows the June 2, 2022 choice of the United Nations to just accept the request to change the name of the country from Turkey to Türkiye.

Direct Istanbul flights from Seattle and Vancouver

After launching its new Istanbul flights from Vancouver, Canada in Might 2021, Turkish Airlines opened a brand new Pacific Northwest route from Seattle to Türkiye’s largest metropolis.

The brand new Seattle-Istanbul flight is 4 occasions weekly (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays) aboard the 300-seat Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. The flight takes about twelve hours.

The addition of the Seattle route means Turkish Airways now has 17 North American gateways together with Newark, Washington D.C., Chicago, Dallas Forth Price, Houston, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, in addition to Canadian and Mexican cities. Later in 2022, Detroit and Denver gateways will launch.

Turkish Airways, a member of Star Alliance, at present flies to five continents and 129 countries, greater than another airline. You may get to 340 locations aboard Turkish Airways, 287 of them worldwide and 53 inside Türkiye.

New Istanbul airport and Turkish Airways’ free stopover resort

Istanbul’s new airport opened in 2019. As soon as building is accomplished, it’s projected to be the world’s largest — already it’s the world’s largest built-from-scratch airport. Upon completion, the anticipated capability is 200 million passengers yearly.

In case you’re simply flying by Istanbul to a different vacation spot, benefit from Turkish Airlines’ Istanbul Stopover Service, reinstated after being on maintain because of the Covid pandemic. This journey hack will get you a free 4- or 5-star resort — e-book your travels so you’ve got at the least a 20-hour layover in Istanbul and Turkish Airways will offer you a resort voucher. In case you journey financial system class, it will likely be for a one-night keep in a four-star resort. Enterprise class passengers get two nights in a five-star resort. There’s an extra program to increase stays at costs starting at $49 US per night time.

Türkiye highlights

In Istanbul, the world’s solely metropolis on two continents, make sure to see Topkapi Palace, the magnificent interiors of Hagia Sofia, browse the Grand Bazaar and Spice Bazaar, and see if you may get all six minarets in a photograph of the Blue Mosque.

Different high websites in Türkiye embody Cappadocia, within the heart of the nation, which is legendary for its underground cities, cave inns and “fairy chimneys” all created out of volcanic tufa rock. You’ll additionally need to see the tiered white mineral swimming pools of Pamukkale and the traditional spa city of Hierapolis, the traditional metropolis of Ephesus which was one of many unique Seven Wonders of the World, plus take a “blue cruise” alongside Türkiye’s Riviera.

No matter how lengthy your keep is, make sure to go to a hammam so you may expertise the normal Turkish scrub and therapeutic massage.