Turkish Airlines resumes Touristanbul tours for transit passengers

7 May, 2019

Turkish Airlines tour marketing manager Abdullah Yormaz said the carrier resumed Touristanbul tours for transit passengers staying at Istanbul from six to 24 hours from 01-May-2019 (Daily Sabah, 06-May-2019). The service is free of charge and will offer passengers a selection of six tour programmes until 31-Oct-2019. 67,000 passengers participated in the programme in 2018 and 15,000 in the beginning of 2019. Mr Yormaz said: "As far as we know, there is no other airline company in the world that offers such tours, food and museum entrances free of charge".