Agreement extends to Brazil, Morocco, Qatar and Mauritius

Turkish Airlines and TAP Air Portugal are expanding their existing codeshare partnership. As part of the recently expanded agreement announced during the IATA Annual General Meeting held in New Delhi, both carriers will now provide their guests with a broader range of seamless travel options beyond their current global networks. Brazil, Morocco, Qatar and Mauritius are new destinations entering the scope of cooperation.

Bilal Ekşi, CEO of Turkish Airlines, said the enhanced scope of the new arrangement ”offers greater flexibility and a wider range of travel options, while contributing to the development of commercial and tourism relations between our countries.”

Luís Rodrigues, TAP’s CEO, said that because of the carrier’s network structure, “we need to find intelligent ways to connect us to the east.” This agreement, he said, “will provide our global passengers and our Portuguese community with increased options to visit new and exciting places using our Turkish Airlines partner.”

The enhanced cooperation not only enhances the network presence of both carriers, said an announcement, but also fosters increased tourism and business traffic between Turkey and Portugal, as well as to key destinations across South America, Africa and the Middle East.