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Turkish Airlines has suspended flights to 23 destinations worldwide, including five in Iran, in a sweeping schedule cut that removes service from airports across Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. The carrier’s timetable shows some of the routes will not return until October, while others are listed for March 2027 at the earliest.
The Turkish Airlines cutbacks include Bissau, Freetown, Hurghada, Juba, Kinshasa, Libreville, Luanda, Lusaka, Monrovia and Pointe Noire, taking nearly a fifth of the airline’s African passenger network offline. Tehran, which has had up to six daily flights in normal times, is among the Iranian cities now off the schedule along with Esfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz and Tabriz.
The carrier also suspended service to Aqaba, Ferghana, Kirkuk, Najaf and Turkistan. Turkish Airlines has flown to Kirkuk since 2021 and to Turkistan since 2022, and Aqaba has been linked with Amman on Istanbul-Amman-Aqaba-Istanbul routings. Most of those five destinations are due to see the airline again in March next year.
The suspensions are mainly temporary, with some markets ending in May or June, and the final service to Hurghada is slated for June. Turkish Airlines’ schedule submission still shows Tehran returning in June, though the source said that is exceedingly unlikely. The broader pause is tied largely to the cost and supply of jet fuel because of the war in Iran, which means the airline cannot fly to Iran now even if it wanted to.
Turkish Airlines flies to more countries than any other carrier, but it does not serve the most airports, and it exceeded its operational expectations last year, generating billions of dollars in profit. The pattern of cuts is concentrated: nine of the ten cities are in sub-Saharan Africa, and most of the African routes were run on one-stop terminator or triangular services. For readers tracking the wider retrenchment, the carrier has also outlined 18 optional pauses to less-trafficked international cities, detailed in Turkish Airlines Cancelled Flights: 18 Routes Cut Through 2026.
