{"id":62001,"date":"2020-02-27T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62001"},"modified":"2020-02-27T15:11:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:11:19","slug":"turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkish airline to begin flight operations from Istanbul to Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi<strong>:<\/strong> Pegasus Airlines, a low-cost airline service based in Turkey, has announced its decision to\ninitiate flight operations in Pakistan from Istanbul\u2019s Sabiha Gokcen Airport to\nKarachi &#8211; with the first arrival\/departure set to commence from March 28\nonwards, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this effect, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued permit to the Turkish carrier, which will four weekly scheduled flights between Istanbul and Karachi \u2013 becoming the second airline company in Turkey to initiate flight services in Pakistan \u2013 the first one being the Turkish Airlines which is already offering flights to-and-from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-open-saidu-sharif-airport-commercial-flights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Govt to open Saidu Sharif airport for commercial flights to promote tourism (opens in a new tab)\">Govt to open Saidu Sharif airport for commercial flights to promote tourism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entry of a new airline in the Pakistani aviation sector is expected to bolster the <a href=\"http:\/\/Pakistan, Turkey\u2019s state-owned media sign MoU to promote heritage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"country\u2019s tourism industry (opens in a new tab)\">country\u2019s tourism industry<\/a> and will also rejuvenate the aviation sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development surfaced after the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan to Pakistan, which was underpinned by various trade agreements that were signed between the two countries. These included MoUs pertaining to: banking, economy, trade, customs, finance and agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-turkey-two-mous-feb-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Pakistan signs two economic engagement MOUs with Turkey (opens in a new tab)\">Pakistan signs two economic engagement MOUs with Turkey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, from April onwards, Pakistan and Turkey would also devise a framework for commencing with\nnegotiations on the Free Trade\nAgreement (FTA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Pegasus Airlines, a low-cost airline service based in Turkey, has announced its decision to initiate flight operations in Pakistan from Istanbul\u2019s Sabiha Gokcen Airport to Karachi &#8211; with the first arrival\/departure set to commence from March 28 onwards, a news source reported. To this effect, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued permit to the Turkish carrier, which will four weekly scheduled flights between Istanbul and Karachi \u2013 becoming the second airline company in Turkey to initiate flight services in Pakistan \u2013 the first one being the Turkish Airlines which is already offering flights to-and-from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. Read: Govt to open Saidu Sharif airport for commercial flights to promote tourism The entry of a new airline in the Pakistani aviation sector is expected to bolster the country\u2019s tourism industry and will also rejuvenate the aviation sector. The development surfaced after the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan to Pakistan, which was underpinned by various trade agreements that were signed between the two countries. These included MoUs pertaining to: banking, economy, trade, customs, finance and agriculture. Read: Pakistan signs two economic engagement MOUs with Turkey Moreover, from April onwards, Pakistan and Turkey would also devise a framework&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":61442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017,15167],"tags":[21113,21114,9950,1700,10481],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"category-tourism","9":"tag-airlines","10":"tag-karachi-airport","11":"tag-pakistan-turkey","12":"tag-tourism-in-pakistan","13":"tag-trade-agreements","14":"cat-15017-id","15":"cat-15167-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Turkish low-cost carrier to commence flights to Karachi - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pegasus Airlines, a low-cost airline service based in Turkey, has announced its decision to initiate flight operations in Pakistan from Istanbul\u2019s Sabiha Gokcen Airport to Karachi.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Turkish low-cost carrier to commence flights to Karachi - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pegasus Airlines, a low-cost airline service based in Turkey, has announced its decision to initiate flight operations in Pakistan from Istanbul\u2019s Sabiha Gokcen Airport to Karachi.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-27T10:11:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-02-27T10:11:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/turkey.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gohar Aslam\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gohar Aslam\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Turkish low-cost carrier to commence flights to Karachi - Zameen News","description":"Pegasus Airlines, a low-cost airline service based in Turkey, has announced its decision to initiate flight operations in Pakistan from Istanbul\u2019s Sabiha Gokcen Airport to Karachi.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Turkish low-cost carrier to commence flights to Karachi - Zameen News","og_description":"Pegasus Airlines, a low-cost airline service based in Turkey, has announced its decision to initiate flight operations in Pakistan from Istanbul\u2019s Sabiha Gokcen Airport to Karachi.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html","og_site_name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","article_published_time":"2020-02-27T10:11:18+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-02-27T10:11:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1170,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/turkey.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Gohar Aslam","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_site":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Gohar Aslam","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html"},"author":{"name":"Gohar Aslam","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/9024b306a86af488fef81834cc19695a"},"headline":"Turkish airline to begin flight operations from Istanbul to Karachi","datePublished":"2020-02-27T10:11:18+00:00","dateModified":"2020-02-27T10:11:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html"},"wordCount":221,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/turkey.png","keywords":["Airlines","Karachi airport","pakistan-turkey","Tourism in Pakistan","trade agreements"],"articleSection":["Notices &amp; Announcements","Tourism"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html","name":"Turkish low-cost carrier to commence flights to Karachi - Zameen News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/turkey.png","datePublished":"2020-02-27T10:11:18+00:00","dateModified":"2020-02-27T10:11:19+00:00","description":"Pegasus Airlines, a low-cost airline service based in Turkey, has announced its decision to initiate flight operations in Pakistan from Istanbul\u2019s Sabiha Gokcen Airport to Karachi.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/turkey.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/turkey.png","width":1170,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/turkish-low-cost-carrier-to-commence-flights-to-karachi.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Turkish airline to begin flight operations from Istanbul to Karachi"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Zameen.com","alternateName":"Zameen","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","width":600,"height":300,"caption":"Zameen.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","https:\/\/x.com\/ZameenProperty","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zameenpk\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/9024b306a86af488fef81834cc19695a","name":"Gohar Aslam","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6811d54b9aac46eb9a8610e9ce00d0f70f06bc4b1b98926db510e77f878d694a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6811d54b9aac46eb9a8610e9ce00d0f70f06bc4b1b98926db510e77f878d694a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6811d54b9aac46eb9a8610e9ce00d0f70f06bc4b1b98926db510e77f878d694a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Gohar Aslam"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.zameen.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/author\/gohar-aslam"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62002,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62001\/revisions\/62002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62001"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=62001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}