Pegasus has linked the capitals of Türkiye and Portugal by launching lisp flights between Ankara and Lisbon. The inaugural flight from Ankara Esenboğa Airport to Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport, Pegasus’ first destination in Portugal, took place on 2 April 2024. Flights are scheduled three times a week, with fares starting at 89.ninety 9 EUR.
The inaugural flight ceremony at Ankara Esenboğa Airport was attended by Onur Dedeköylü, Pegasus Airlines’ Chief Business Officer (CCO), and Pegasus officials, as effectively as João Macedo, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Portugal, Celeste Mota, the Financial and Business Counsellor and the Director of AICEP in Türkiye, Mehmet Sefa Ceyhan, Head of the Air Transport Department of the Directorate Customary of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Yavuz Doğan, Deputy Provincial Police Chief to blame for Esenboğa Airport, Nuray Demirer, Customary Supervisor of TAV Esenboğa Airport, and Alp Karayalçın, Deputy Customary Supervisor of TAV Esenboğa Airport.
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In his speech, Onur Dedeköylü, CCO of Pegasus Airlines, acknowledged: “Pegasus plays a key characteristic in Türkiye’s tourism ability and figures. With every unique route we start, we connect nations and destinations culturally and economically. Our Ankara-Lisbon route will motivate us delay this reason and characteristic to Portugal. With the initiating of our Ankara-Lisbon route, we’re adding a brand unique destination and nation to our community. With our unique route, we’re additionally connecting the capitals of both nations.”
Dedeköylü continued: “Being one of the oldest cities on this planet, Lisbon attracts leisure and enterprise visitors for its brilliant culture and superb hospitality. Ankara, the Turkish capital and 2nd most populous metropolis in Türkiye, is the beating coronary heart of our nation. It is miles a thriving standard metropolis rich in history and culture that affords our superb Turkish hospitality. This capacity that of this truth, we deem we can attend an entire bunch of hundreds of holiday makers between Türkiye and Portugal within the coming years. I are looking to reveal my exact gratitude to all people who has made the opening of this unique route imaginable, especially to the Turkish and Portuguese Civil Aviation Authori”ies.”
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João Macedo, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Portugal, s”identification: “The Ankara-Lisbon flights are no longer appropriate between two cities but between two capitals. Thanks to this unique connec I’m I´m sure both nations will get to perceive one one more greater. Tourism and alternate will profit vastly, but within the terminate, these human contacts will count and final into the prolonged flee. As an airline over 30 years primitive and light expanding, we prefer Pegasus Airlines every success on this venture and hope that this is able to well well continue to “row.”
