flybmi customers will be able to enjoy flying on routes from the UK and Ireland to Istanbul thanks to a new codeshare partnership with Turkish Airlines. 

The partnership will provide business and leisure travellers an opportunity to book via flybmi.com and enjoy travel from Manchester, London Heathrow and Dublin to the Turkish metropole.

Furthermore, the codeshare will also open up routes within Europe for flybmi as customers will be able to fly on from Istanbul to Brussels, Paris, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Oslo as part of the agreement.

In return, Turkish Airlines customers will enjoy the benefits of flying on eight of flybmi’s European routes including inbound routes from Brussels to Newcastle and East Midlands, Norrköping and Saarbrücken to Munich, Oslo to Aberdeen and Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Paris to Bristol.

Jochen Schnadt, managing director of flybmi, explained: “This new codeshare with our partner, Turkish Airlines, enables our customers to book flights to Istanbul via flybmi.com, taking us to Turkey for the first time in the airline’s history.

“This is yet another step for flybmi in building a comprehensive network of strategic airline partnerships that allows us to reach new customers and widen our overall network reach. Entering into this partnership with Turkish Airlines is part of our over-arching strategy to further improve connectivity to/from our network of key business regions throughout Europe.”

Turkish Airlines connects 255 international destinations and Istanbul, as the only city in the world having settled on two continents, serves as a main hub of Turkish Airlines.

Ahmet Bolat, chief investment and technology officer at Turkish Airlines, said: “We are pleased to sign this codeshare agreement with flybmi and aim to improve our partnership to maximise the travel opportunities offered to our passengers through the networks of both airlines.”