As a Minnesotan and former Orlando resident, I agree with your assessment. There was a quote when Lufthansa launched MSP services that they were targeting East African and middle eastern traffic, which is something Delta and SkyTeam don’t really address out of MSP. As for Orlando, I was surprised when Emirates launched but they’ve absolutely held their own, and like MSP, Turkish feels like a natural next step for that part of the world from Central Florida.
Turkish to MSP I think makes the most sense due to the huge Somali community there especially. LH doesn’t serve Mogadishu but TK does which could make it much easier for travel between the two cities!
Turkish Airlines is simply amazing! I hope they keep growing exponentially! Their service is Top Notch like Gulf Carriers and their ticket prices are quite low.
Turkish Airlines was an amazing flying experience. Cannot recommend it highly enough. Was surprised to see Lufthansa flights to both Munich and Frankfurt during a recent visit to DIA.
TK is one of my favorites. Haven’t flown them in 10 years but I’d love to fly them again especially to visit the new IST. It’s great LH flies to both MUC/FRA from DEN too!
The thing about Denver Airport is that it is effectively a gateway to the entire United States in all directions. There is almost no place in the country you can’t consistently directly go to on United from Denver. I don’t know why the other Star Alliance airlines that don’t already go there don’t go there. All Nippon, Singapore, EVA, Air New Zealand, Air India, Air China, and Asiana from the Asian/Oceanic side would open up the entire US east, north or south of Denver through codeshares, and from the European/Asian/Latin American side Avianca, SWISS, LOT, TAP, Ethiopian, Austrian and Brussels would have the entire US west, north and south of Denver through codeshares.
Wow turkish does seem to be expanding a lot in the recent years. Travel to denver allowed to catch one of the Turkish Aircraft, really neat to see these operations considering so many other international carriers already have operations there!
Other cities they could hopefully go to in addition to the ones mentioned: -Nashville -Buffalo or Rochester NY (large Turkish population there) -San Diego -Fort Lauderdale -New Orleans -Indianapolis -Milwaukee -St. Louis -Austin -Salt Lake City -Portland OR -Providence RI or Hartford CT -Cleveland -Pittsburgh -Cincinnati -Raleigh -Calgary -Ottawa -Baltimore (this is a very long shot because of Turkish’s partnership with United, which has a hub at the close-by and much bigger Washington Dulles Airport)
Keeps growing, but efficiency and punctuality are long gone, had a Barcelona Istanbul flight cancelled because of an engine problem (lousy Turkish on-time maintenance) on business class, we were treated like sheep, a total scandal.
Denver, IK, Btw I commented this before you said anything about DEN. But fr though Denver? Why Denver? You can’t even connect with United for Turkish air, Denver is the 19th largest is the US, cmon delta, Start flights from Atlanta to India or somthen. Lrgedt sirport right.
Read my article on this: aeroxplorer.com/articles/the-insane-growth-of-turkish-airlines.php
As a Minnesotan and former Orlando resident, I agree with your assessment. There was a quote when Lufthansa launched MSP services that they were targeting East African and middle eastern traffic, which is something Delta and SkyTeam don’t really address out of MSP.
As for Orlando, I was surprised when Emirates launched but they’ve absolutely held their own, and like MSP, Turkish feels like a natural next step for that part of the world from Central Florida.
Turkish to MSP I think makes the most sense due to the huge Somali community there especially. LH doesn’t serve Mogadishu but TK does which could make it much easier for travel between the two cities!
Turkish Airlines is simply amazing! I hope they keep growing exponentially! Their service is Top Notch like Gulf Carriers and their ticket prices are quite low.
Ahhh I’ve been waiting all week for this!!!! Sooo coool! Made my day!!!!
Turkish Airlines was an amazing flying experience. Cannot recommend it highly enough. Was surprised to see Lufthansa flights to both Munich and Frankfurt during a recent visit to DIA.
TK is one of my favorites. Haven’t flown them in 10 years but I’d love to fly them again especially to visit the new IST. It’s great LH flies to both MUC/FRA from DEN too!
At this point TK is in a great position to dethrone major Middle eastern giants like Emirates and Etihad
Well it’s already number 1 airline in Europe
The thing about Denver Airport is that it is effectively a gateway to the entire United States in all directions. There is almost no place in the country you can’t consistently directly go to on United from Denver. I don’t know why the other Star Alliance airlines that don’t already go there don’t go there. All Nippon, Singapore, EVA, Air New Zealand, Air India, Air China, and Asiana from the Asian/Oceanic side would open up the entire US east, north or south of Denver through codeshares, and from the European/Asian/Latin American side Avianca, SWISS, LOT, TAP, Ethiopian, Austrian and Brussels would have the entire US west, north and south of Denver through codeshares.
Wow turkish does seem to be expanding a lot in the recent years. Travel to denver allowed to catch one of the Turkish Aircraft, really neat to see these operations considering so many other international carriers already have operations there!
Great video!
thank you! dude
Other cities they could hopefully go to in addition to the ones mentioned:
-Nashville
-Buffalo or Rochester NY (large Turkish population there)
-San Diego
-Fort Lauderdale
-New Orleans
-Indianapolis
-Milwaukee
-St. Louis
-Austin
-Salt Lake City
-Portland OR
-Providence RI or Hartford CT
-Cleveland
-Pittsburgh
-Cincinnati
-Raleigh
-Calgary
-Ottawa
-Baltimore (this is a very long shot because of Turkish’s partnership with United, which has a hub at the close-by and much bigger Washington Dulles Airport)
kansas city
Las Vegas and Phoenix may be problematic due to the altitude, but it may give them a strategic advantage as none of the gulf carriers go there
Turkish should come to John Wayne/ontario!!!! those residents often have a hard time going to LAX
Turkish airlines is about to increase its presence in the USA 🇺🇸 but not in Canada.
Keeps growing, but efficiency and punctuality are long gone, had a Barcelona Istanbul flight cancelled because of an engine problem (lousy Turkish on-time maintenance) on business class, we were treated like sheep, a total scandal.
Amazing
I just flew to Istanbul on Lufthansa, we need Turkish to crush the monopoly delta has
Me thinking this ain't Oil-rich Saudi Arabia. 😁😁😄
Denver, IK,
Btw I commented this before you said anything about DEN.
But fr though Denver?
Why Denver? You can’t even connect with United for Turkish air, Denver is the 19th largest is the US, cmon delta, Start flights from Atlanta to India or somthen. Lrgedt sirport right.
Minneapolis to Istanbul ❤
it could be RDU they have a even bigger international footprint than CLT
but clt has 6+ everyday rdu only has 2 tmr
@@marcuswaterbury7371 RDU just got 2 new international airlines and they have more international airlines than CLT
Come to STL!
Btw it’s to Tokyo Narita
First
Hate to break it to you, but no one cares.