Turkish Airlines is resuming domestic service on 4 June, and
international service also will begin again in the coming weeks, the carrier has
announced.
The airline, 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 18 June, 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 sanitisation
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 is also providing hygiene kits
that include a mask, an antiseptic tissue and, for long-haul flights, hand
sanitiser.