Flights from Istanbul to Libya’s north-eastern city of Benghazi resumed on Tuesday after 10 years, according to the Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister, Anadolu Agency reports.
Abdulkadir Uraloglu told Anadolu that Turkiye’s flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, will be flying three times a week to Benghazi.
Uraloglu said Turkish Airlines started flights to Benghazi in May 2009 and operated regularly until suspension in January 2015.
He said the Ministry is utilising Turkiye’s advantageous geographical location with investments in the country’s aviation field.
“We transformed Turkiye into one of the world’s largest flight networks, as its location allows access to 67 countries with a combined gross domestic product of $51.2 trillion within a four-hour-flight radius,” he said.
The Minister said 32 new airports were built in Turkiye in the last 22 years, enabling 58 domestic and 349 international destinations to be reached by air.
Uraloglu highlighted that flights to Santiago and Chile also resumed in December 2024, while earlier in the same month, Turkish Airlines started flights on the Istanbul-Kuala Lumpur-Sydney route, increasing the total number of international destinations to 349.
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