Turkish Airlines approved for massive expansion of flights to and from Australia, following Qatar re
- thewilliamsmith
- Dec 18, 2023
- 1 min read
Turkish Airlines will be able to operate five times more flights in and out of Australia than it previously could, after Transport Minister Catherine King quietly approved a proposal by Türkiye. Ms King's decision follows an earlier rejection of a similar proposal made by Qatar to add more weekly flights from Australia's major airports.
Turkish Airlines will be able to run 35 flights a week in and out of Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Western Sydney by 2025, incrementally rising from the seven a week it currently operates.
It will also be allowed to run those flights with stopovers between Australia and Türkiye.
The approval amounts to a five-fold increase in the flights the carrier could operate, and adds lucrative "fifth freedom rights", which grant Turkish Airlines the right to operate routes between two countries where neither is its home base of Türkiye.
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