Airline opens four new Turkish routes from Luton

Monday, 15 Jun, 2018 0

Turkish airline SunExpress has launched three of four new routes out of London Luton Airport (LLA), with the fourth due to start on Wednesday.

A twice-weekly Monday and Friday service to Antalya started last Friday (June 15); a twice-weekly route to Ankara began yesterday (Sunday) and a Monday and Friday service to Bodrum starts today (June 18).

On Wednesday June 20 a weekly service to Gaziantep will complete the new line up.

SunExpress will continue to offer its twice-weekly flights to Izmir, as it has done for the past three years.

The flights to Ankara and Gaziantep are the only direct flights to operate to these destinations from the UK.

Luton Airport chief commercial officer Jonathan Pollard, said: "We have worked closely with SunExpress since they joined us as a partner three years

ago and it is fitting they have chosen the year of our 80^th anniversary to increase the number of destinations offered from LLA."

Pictured, from left, are SunExpress head of network planning Wilken Bellmann, LLA head of business development Simon Harley, LLA CCO Jonathan Pollard and Turkish Culture and Tourism Office director Taner Beyoglu.

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