{"id":240844,"date":"2025-06-24T06:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/turkey-for-christmas-does-air-transats-new-longest-route-make-sense\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T06:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:05:16","slug":"turkey-for-christmas-does-air-transats-new-longest-route-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=240844","title":{"rendered":"Turkey For Christmas: Does Air Transat&#8217;s New Longest Route Make Sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Transat has confirmed that flights from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"260104\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/toronto-pearson-airport\/\"  >Toronto<\/a><\/span><strong> to <\/strong><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257272\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/istanbul-airport\/\"  >Istanbul<\/a><\/span> will begin. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-transat-flights-europe-second-busiest-airport\/\" >While details are currently scarce, a twice-weekly Airbus A330-200 operation will start on December 6<\/a>. Given how cold Istanbul is in winter, this is an odd month to launch, especially for a leisure carrier that ordinarily focuses on outbound leisure travel. The reason seems to be its new interline agreement with <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"52149\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/turkish-airlines\/\"  >Turkish Airlines,<\/a><\/span> with <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/up-to-28-daily-flights-this-long-haul-airlines-us-canadian-operations-explored\/\" >Air Transat growing that carrier\u2019s access to Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul will regain a Canadian carrier for the first time in almost nine years.<\/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":[720,743,1572,396,476,713,407,1764,406,15477,712,1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transat","category-airbus-a330","category-airbus-a330-200","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-canada","category-flights","category-istanbul-airport","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-toronto-pearson-international-airport","category-turkish-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240844","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=240844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240845,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240844\/revisions\/240845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}