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Turkish Airlines and EgyptAir have implemented a codeshare agreement on services between Istanbul and Cairo as well as Istanbul and Alexandria.

Turkish Airlines has begun new service between Istanbul and Alexandria, Egypt. Flights operate 4x per week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays using B738 aircraft.

TK696 IST - ALY: 0030 - 230
TK697 ALY - DAR: 340 - 540

Turkish Airlines has begun new service between Istanbul and Entebbe, Uganda and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Flights will operate 3x per week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays using B738 aircraft.

TK080 IST - EBB: 0030 - 650
TK080 EBB - DAR: 805 - 1005
TK081 DAR - EBB: 1945 - 2145
TK081 EBB - IST: 2300 - 530

Turkish Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines have signed a code share agreement for flights between Istanbul and Addis Ababa operated by Turkish. The agreement takes effect on January 15.

Turkish Airlines will reportedly increase its frequency between Istanbul, Turkey and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to daily effective March 2009.

Turkish Airlines will begin service to Nairobi, Kenya from Istanbul on April 6. Flights will operate 3x per week on Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays.

TK1129 IST - NBO: 1845 - 100
TK1130 NBO - IST: 230 - 900

Turkish Airlines will begin service to Dakar, Sénégal on March 29, with continuing service to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Flights will operate 2x per week on Wednesdays and Sundays using A330 aircraft.

TK015 IST - DKR: 935 - 1410
TK015 DKR - SAO: 1540 - 1940
TK016 SAO - DKR: 2230 - 0805
TK016 DKR - IST: 935 - 1905

Posted schedules show that Turkish Airlines will decouple its Istanbul-Khartoum-Addis Ababa service, opting to serve each city nonstop 4x per week as of the end of October.

Turkish Airlines resumed services to South Africa this week following a 5-year hiatus. The airline now serves Cape Town via Johannesburg 3x per week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays using A332 aircraft.

TK080 IST - JNB: 2320 - 0910
TK080 JNB - CPT:1030 - 1240
TK081 CPT - JNB: 1720 - 1930
TK081 JNB - IST: 2025 - 0605

Kenya Airways and Turkish Airlines have signed a codeshare agreement that will see the latter placing its code on KQ’s 3x per week flights between Nairobi and Istanbul. Furthermore, the agreement allows for KQ to increase its frequency to 5x per week.

Turkish Airlines’ expansion into Africa, which was announced last year to include services to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, Khartoum in Sudan and Lagos in Nigeria, sees the following schedules out of Istanbul.

Khartoum and Addis Ababa - Mondays and Thursdays
TK1146 IST - KRT: 1700 - 2120
TK1146 KRT - IST: 2220 - 0020
TK1147 ADD - KRT: 0150 - 0350
TK1147 KRT - IST: 450 - 910

Lagos - Thursdays and Saturdays
TK1123 IST - LOS: 1715 - 2155
TK1124 LOS - IST: 2355 - 755

Turkish Airlines has indicated that having an outstanding order of 59 Airbus and Boeing aircraft, it is to open 23 new routes begining next year to bring its international destinations to 102 cities. Among these new routes are the African cities of Lagos (Nigeria), Khartoum (Sudan) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).