Air Transat to Add Istanbul Link this Summer

Canadian carrier Air Transat is to offer seasonal flights to Istanbul this summer with a weekly flight between May 29 and October 9. The service will originate in Toronto but will also serve Montreal, and will be operated by an Airbus A330-200.

In the last year Air Transat accounted for an 18.2 per cent share of the 7.4 million O&D passengers travelling between Canada and Europe. It is currently offering over 100 flights a week to 25 destinations in the continent from Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto and Vancouver.

Turkish Airlines (THY) already provides a three times weekly service between Istanbul Ataturk and Toronto Lester B Pearson International, a route launched in July 2009 and operated by one of its new Boeing 777-300ERs. Approximately 48,000 O&D passengers travelled on the route in the past year, with just over half using the new THY service.

Schedule:
TS100 YYZ1735 – 1850YUL1955 – 1225+1IST 330 7
TS101 IST1410 – 1745YUL1845 – 2005YYZ 330 1

Schedule Source: Airline Route

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NOTE: Schedule data extracted from Flightbase for week commencing May 14, 2011; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending January 2011.