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Inspite of the ongoing conflict in South Sudan, Turkish Airlines has restated their intent to add Juba to their growing list of African destinations, though no firm startup date has been given as of now, the www.eturbonews.com website reported.
South Sudan presently has few international airline connections, apart from Kenya Airways, RwandAir, Flydubai, Egypt Air and Ethiopian, and to have a truly global carrier commence flights will no doubt provide a boost to economic and tourism development when peace returns to Africa?s youngest nation.
Turkish is of course no stranger to opening up routes into conflict-ridden countries – it was the first to launch flights to Mogadishu at the time, again apart from some smaller regional carriers. Turkish Airlines presently serves some 40 destinations in Africa, with the most recent addition being Abuja – their third destination in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, but it already has shown intent to increase this number to 50.
This places Turkish Airlines, as far as African connections are concerned, way ahead of Emirates and Qatar Airways, the latter just having announced the launch of flights to Zanzibar as their 20th destination on the continent.
Sources in Juba have broadly welcomed the development when made aware of the upcoming new air links with Istanbul.
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