Turkish Airlines launches a new Venice-Istanbul route starting from today.

The new route from the Venice Marco Polo Airport to the Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport will open even more doors for Southern Europe to the rest of the world.

Turkish Airlines, the "Best European Airline"* for the fifth year in a row, has recently announced that it will keep on reinforcing its presence in the Northeast of Italy, increasing the flight frequencies to Istanbul by offering a new route. As well as the already existing 24 weekly flights connecting the Venezia Marco Polo Airport to the Istanbul Atatürk Airport, from August 24th the air carrier inaugurates a new connection to the Sabiha Gökçen Airport, located in the Asian side of the city. This new flight will be operated daily, thus increasing to 31 the total number of weekly connections between Venice and Istanbul.

Turkish Airlines network is the 4th largest flight network in the world and includes 10 Italian cities; Rome, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Turin, Genoa, Naples, Catania, Pisa and the most recent addition Bari.

With existing services to Amsterdam, Baku, Berlin, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Northern Cyprus, Frankfurt, Kiev, Kuwait, London, Milano, Munchen, Paris, Tbilisi, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Rome, Stuttgart, Köln (Cologne), Barcelona, Dammam, Erbil, and Bahrain, Turkish Airlines now adds flights to Venice as its 25th flight destination operated from/to Sabiha Gökçen International Airport.

Venice flight times as scheduled by August 24th;

Flight No. Days Departure Arrival
TK1839 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday SAW 09:55 VCE 11:30
TK1839 Saturday** SAW 10:35 VCE 12:10
TK1840 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday VCE 12:30 SAW 16:00
TK1840 Saturday*** VCE 13:10 SAW 16:40

All times are in LMT.

Introductory round trip fares are available from/to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport to/from Venice Marco Polo Airport starting at 149 EUR (including taxes and fees).

Additionally, for the operations to this destination, there is a special offer for Miles&Smiles members, with a 25% reduction in the miles needed to redeem either award tickets or upgrades.****

To view the flight schedules please visit www.turkishairlines.com, contact the call center at +90 212 444 0849 or visit any Turkish Airlines sales office.

*Skytrax survey of 2015.
**With the exception of Saturday August 29th, when the TK1839 flight will leave from SAW at 11:35 and will land at VCE at 13:10.
***With the exception of Saturday August 29th, when the TK1840 flight will leave from VCE at 14:10 and will land at SAW at 17:40.
****Turkish Airlines reserves the right to make changes in this regard.

Turkish Airlines, Inc.
Media Relations

24.08.2015 Updated

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