Turkish Airline gears up for its new service to Seychelles |12 August 2016

Representatives of Turkish Airline are in Seychelles holding meetings with relevant authorities ahead of the start of the airline’s new service to the islands at the end of September this year. Fatih Mehmet Kursun, its general manager for Mauritius, Madagascar and now Seychelles, accompanied by Dr Taner Erim, the manager international relations and agreements for Middle East and Africa, and Yakup Gozubuyuk, its expert for international relations and agreements for Middle East and Africa, paid a courtesy call on Minister Alain St Ange, the Seychelles Minister for Tourism and Culture, at the ministry's ESPACE offices in Victoria.

Discussions that centered on the arrival date of the airline's first flight to Seychelles at the end of September was also the opportunity for Turkish Airline to review its target source markets for Seychelles as well as conditions for its operation in Seychelles.

Also present at the meeting was Sherin Naiken, the chief executive of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) who confirmed to the Turkish Airline delegation that their marketing and sales people were already actively working with the STB in countries already identified as target markets for Seychelles.

Turkish Airline is launching its Seychelles service with three flights and is hoping to increase the number of flights to the islands in the near future.

“We are happy to see the arrival of Turkish Airline to our shores. We are a mid-ocean tourism destination that remains dependent on adequate air access to make our tourism industry work,” Minister St Ange said as he was presented with a replica model of the plane that will be on the Seychelles route from the end of September this year.