{"id":34010,"date":"2024-06-16T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=34010"},"modified":"2024-06-17T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T15:20:03","slug":"turkish-airlines-new-routes-from-usa-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/turkish-airlines-new-routes-from-usa-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines Eyes 6 New Routes from USA to Istanbul with Connection to India"},"content":{"rendered":"
Network expansion in a particular geography or across the world is a key growth driver for airlines in the post-pandemic landscape of competition. Recently, Japan Airlines teamed with IndiGo<\/a><\/span> to provide seamless domestic connection to 14 cities in India from two gateway airports: New Delhi IGI and Kempegowda Bengaluru. June 2024 saw Lufthansa operate inaugural flights to Minneapolis in the Midwest and Raleigh in North Carolina, following the launch of flights to Hyderabad<\/a><\/span> early this year. Etihad connected Boston to India in March 2024.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Turkish Airlines is on an expansion spree. After having touched down at Detroit and Denver within a period of 6 months, Turkish Airlines is eyeing six new destinations in the United States<\/strong>. These are Philadelphia, Charlotte, Orlando, Minneapolis, Phoenix, and Raleigh\/Las Vegas. \u201cOur number of destinations will go up to 20 in the US,\u201d said the airline\u2019s chairman Ahmet Bolat sanguinely in a recent interview. Currently, Turkish Airlines\u2019 list of US destinations includes New York, Newark, Washington DC, Boston and Atlanta in the East coast; Chicago and Detroit in the Midwest; Dallas and Houston in the south coast; San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle in the west coast.<\/p>\n
Charlotte, Philadelphia, Orlando, Minneapolis and Phoenix are less competitive markets in international aviation<\/strong>. Turkish Airlines would be the first Middle East carrier to operate to Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Lufthansa is the only European airline to serve Charlotte after British Airways terminated its service to the city in North Carolina. Currently, there are hardly any one-stop flights between Charlotte and India<\/a><\/span>. American Airlines and United Airlines operate two-stop itineraries from Charlotte to India in codeshare with their respective partners \u2013 Qatar Airways and Emirates.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia has more or less the same market share as Charlotte. It ceased to be a destination for Qatar Airways, Air Canada, and Air France<\/strong>. Again, Turkish Airlines would be the only Middle East carrier to have Philadelphia in its US-India network via Istanbul. However, Lufthansa and British Airways operating one-stop flights between Philadelphia and India<\/a><\/span>, may give competition to Turkish Airways. Besides, American Airlines and Qatar Airways code-sharing on Philadelphia to India flights via Doha will be another competition to the flag carrier of T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only advantage that Turkish Airlines could have, is over Lufthansa\u2019s one-check-in baggage policy for cheap economy flights to India and USA. But Turkish Airlines would lose out premium economy business to Lufthansa and British Airways, which are among the best airlines offering premium economy travel<\/a><\/span> to India and USA,\u201d said Sourav Agarwal, the Editor of Travel Beats, the one-stop travel news and community portal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n