PIA-Turkish Airline expand cooperation: How it will affect Pakistani passengers?
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KARACHI: Pakistan International Airline and Turkish Airlines have inked a new accord to facilitate each-others passengers.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Turkish Airlines have agreed to expand cooperation in flying each other’s passengers to next destinations of connecting flights from February 1.
“The expanded codeshare cooperation provides passengers with more feasible connections as well as seamless travel opportunities between and beyond destinations of Turkey and Pakistan,” Turkish Airlines said in a statement issued after CEOs of the two airlines signed the expanded codeshare agreement.
Turkish Airlines would market PIA flights from Karachi and Islamabad to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Muscat and from Lahore to Dubai and Abu Dhabi with its own airline code and flight number, the statement added.
The agreement, on the other hand, has allowed Pakistan’s flag carrier to sell Turkish Airlines’ flights beyond Istanbul points of Atlanta, Johannesburg, Athens, Amsterdam, Tashkent, Moscow, Miami, Boston, Houston, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago with its own airline code and flight number.
This is in addition to the already existing cooperation on Istanbul-Karachi/ Islamabad/ Lahore routes, it further stated.
