{"id":2517,"date":"2019-04-13T19:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/turkish-airlines-big-switch-istanbul-airport-on-april-6\/"},"modified":"2019-04-13T19:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T18:41:04","slug":"turkish-airlines-big-switch-istanbul-airport-on-april-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/turkish-airlines-big-switch-istanbul-airport-on-april-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines big switch Istanbul Airport on April 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<h2>As it switches its operations to the new mega-Istanbul Airport, Turkish Airlines will end all scheduled flights at Ataturk Airport as of April 6 at 2.00 a.m. local time (April 5, 2300GMT), the airline said on Monday.<\/h2>\n<p>The national flag carrier will resume all flight operations planned for Ataturk Airport from its new home Istanbul Airport as of the afternoon of April 6 at 14.00 local time (1100GMT), it announced on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Istanbul Airport, the \u201cworld\u2019s new hub,\u201d officially opened on Oct. 29, 2018, the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Once fully completed \u2014 including four phases with six runways \u2014 Istanbul Airport is set to serve 150 million passengers annually.<\/p>\n<p>At full capacity, Istanbul Airport will become a global aviation hub by hosting more than 100 airlines and flights to over 300 destinations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Airlines, founded in 1933 with a fleet of five aircraft, currently has more than 330 aircraft, including passenger and cargo planes.<\/p>\n<p>It flies to 306 destinations in 124 countries. Last year, Turkish Airlines carried 75.2 million passengers with a seat occupancy rate of 82 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/turkish-airlines-big-switch-istanbul-airport-on-april-6\/?utm_source=source&#038;utm_medium=medyaolusum&#038;utm_campaign=english&#038;utm_content=news rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tourism Travel Vacation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it switches its operations to the new mega-Istanbul Airport, Turkish Airlines will end all scheduled flights at Ataturk Airport as of April 6 at 2.00 a.m. local time (April 5, 2300GMT), the airline said on Monday. The national flag carrier will resume all flight operations planned for Ataturk Airport from its new home Istanbul &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}