Turkish Airlines is resuming domestic service on June 4, and international service also will begin again in the coming weeks, the carrier announced.
The carrier, which served 319 global destinations prior to the Covid-19 crisis, has suspended flying for the past two months. International service, scheduled to resume on June 18, will first include routes to six European countries: Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.
As it resumes service, the carrier has introduced new sanitization protocols, including cleaning all touchpoints in aircraft prior to every flight, adapted services, such as not providing pillows and limiting food service to packaged and single-use products, and enacted social distancing measures for check-in, boarding and disembarking. Turkish Airlines is requiring passengers to wear masks throughout the airport journey and on the aircraft, and it is asking passengers using single-use masks to bring enough to be able to change them every four hours. The carrier also is providing hygiene kits that include a mask, an antiseptic tissue and, for long-haul flights, hand sanitizer.