Turkish Airlines Suspends Flights To 23 Cities Worldwide [Full List]
Turkish Airlines flies to extra nations than another service, but it does not serve the most airports. Given that it has now suspended flights to 23 locations, its distance from the pole place is additional than regular. For now, the cessations are primarily momentary, with some markets ending in May or June. They primarily relate to the associated fee and provide of jet gas due to the warfare in Iran.
The 23 locations fall into two classes. First, obligatory suspensions. This entails 5 cities in Iran, as Turkish Airlines, like all different operators, can’t fly there now because the airspace stays closed. Second, elective pauses, with 18 worldwide cities on this class, all of that are less-trafficked locations.
Turkish Airlines Has Paused Flights To Ten African Cities
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Star Alliance member has pulled all providers to Bissau, Freetown, Hurghada, Juba, Kinshasa, Libreville, Luanda, Lusaka, Monrovia, and Pointe Noire. Analysis of Cirium Diio information exhibits that just about a fifth of (*23*) African passenger community has been eliminated.
Turkish Airlines‘ schedule submission exhibits that these cities are attributable to see the service once more in October or in March 2027 on the earliest. This displays what is named of April 28, 2026, with additional inevitable adjustments. The exception is the Egyptian vacationer vacation spot of Hurghada, with all future flights eliminated. Having flown there since 2012, the ultimate service is scheduled for June.
Nine of the ten cities are positioned in sub-Saharan Africa. Most have been served on a one-stop, so-called terminator or triangular foundation. Reducing working bills and threat, this can be a frequent means for Turkish Airlines to serve so many cities throughout the huge continent of Africa. The elimination of those markets signifies that the locations they have been tagged with may now be quickly flown both on a terminator foundation (probably with a diminished frequency and thus decrease competitiveness however a decrease gas invoice) or tagged with one other metropolis.
Ten Cities In Asia And The Middle East Are Also Suspended
While the Middle East is geographically a part of Asia, it’s often thought-about a separate area in aviation. Half of the ten cities are in Iran: Esfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Tabriz, and Tehran. The warfare signifies that the airline can’t fly there now even when it needed to.
In regular occasions, Iran is Turkish Airlines’ eleventh most-served worldwide nation by flights. It performs an necessary function in its general community. This particularly pertains to Tehran, with as much as six every day flights.
While the service’s schedule continues to indicate flights to the Iranian capital will resume in June, that is extraordinarily unlikely to occur. As with most locations talked about on this article, it’s more likely to be only a placeholder schedule that’s simply movable. The 4 different cities in Iran are attributable to see the airline once more in October, which is extra sensible however might nonetheless be pushed again.
Turkish Airlines has additionally suspended flights to Aqaba, Ferghana, Kirkuk, Najaf, and Turkistan. Two of those cities are comparatively new additions to the service’s community: it has flown to Kirkuk (Iraq) since 2021 and Turkistan (Kazakhstan) since 2022. For some time, Aqaba (which is in Jordan however proper subsequent to the border with Israel and near Saudi Arabia) has been tagged with Amman, with flights routing Istanbul-Amman-Aqaba-Istanbul. For now, many of the 5 locations are attributable to see the airline once more in March subsequent yr.
Then There’s Europe And Latin America
The closing three cities are Billund, Havana, and Leipzig. Yes, the value and availability of jet gas are the first elements within the suspension of flights. It has been reported that some airways flying to Cuba have needed to cease to refuel en route. But like most locations talked about on this article, all of them are fairly small markets for Turkish Airlines, which absolutely can’t be a coincidence. It is probably going that their underlying efficiency is inadequate to resist the upper gas worth.
Flights to all three cities will resume in October or March. Let’s take into account the Cuban capital, Havana. The service has flown there since December 2016, with many flights persevering with to Caracas. The route was totally de-tagged in January 2026.
days | Istanbul To Havana; Local Times* | Havana To Istanbul; Local Times** |
|---|---|---|
Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays | 3:35 PM-9:45 PM | 11:30 PM-6:10 PM+1 |
* First week of November | **First week of November |
If flights resume as deliberate on October 24, a three-weekly terminator operation aboard the 
Boeing 787-9 will exist. The A330 was used till 2020, therefore showing within the above video. According to reserving information for the primary two months of 2026, Turkish Airlines’ high 5 nations for connecting passengers have been Havana to/from Turkey, China, the UAE, Greece, and Russia.
