{"id":114731,"date":"2024-08-26T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-no-us-airlines-serve-istanbul\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:00:13","slug":"analysis-why-do-no-us-airlines-fly-to-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=114731","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Why Do No US Airlines Fly To Istanbul?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/istanbul-airport\/\">Istanbul Airport<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oag.com\/megahub-airports-2023\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >ranked<\/a> the sixth-busiest airport in the world, with flights to destinations worldwide. Yet, no US-based carrier flies there. It seems counter-intuitive that no US airlines would fly there. After all, US-based airlines operate in the region; for example, Delta and United fly to Greece&#8217;s Athens and Israel&#8217;s Tel Aviv airports. The reasons no US airlines fly there are mixed up with politics, code-share agreements, and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/turkish-airlines\/\">Turkish Airlines&#8217;<\/a> dominance (<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/turkish-airlines-worlds-most-vast-hub-network-istanbul-airport\/\">Turkish Airlines offers flights to some 276 destinations<\/a> &#8211; including around 14 destinations in the US).     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Turkish Airlines offers flights to around 14 US destinations, no US-based airlines offer flights to Istanbul Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,636,397,565,1764,1318,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-american-airlines","category-analysis","category-delta-air-lines","category-istanbul-airport","category-turkish-airlines","category-united-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114732,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114731\/revisions\/114732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}