ANKARA, June 2 (NNN-XINHUA) – Turkey’s airline companies resumed their domestic operations on Monday, with a limited number of flights, after two months of closure over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Turkey’s national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines (THY), and the Pegasus Airlines, currently only resume the flights from Turkey’s biggest city, Istanbul, to a few major cities.
THY’s first aircraft departed to the capital Ankara from Istanbul Airport, and a plane with Pegasus Airlines flew to the western province of Izmir from Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Istanbul, in the morning.
THY will begin to fly to other cities on June 4, and launch its international flights on June 10.
Pegasus administration, meanwhile, said, the company would soon start its domestic and international flights, without revealing details.
Last week, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that, Turkey would enter a new normalisation period on June 1, as the figures related to COVID-19 cases tend to go downwards.
The death toll from the virus climbed to 4,540, and the number of confirmed cases totalled 163,942, according to the figures announced by the Health Ministry on Sunday.– NNN-XINHUA
