SunExpress connects Podgorica with Izmir

Tourist and charter carrier SunExpress will be the fourth Turkish airline to establish regular air traffic between Turkey and Montenegro during the next summer IATA season. This was confirmed to the media from the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Montenegro.

Unlike the companies that currently fly from Montenegro to Turkey and vice versa on the lines from Podgorica and Tivat to Istanbul, SunExpress will operate between the capital of Montenegro and Izmir, Turkey. On the Izmir-Podgorica route, SunExpress will fly from June 4 next year until the end of September twice a week, on Tuesdays and Sundays, with Boeing B737-800 aircraft, with a capacity of 180 seats.

The Turkish national and Montenegrin national airlines Turkish Airlines and Air Montenegro already fly on the lines between Podgorica, Tivat and Istanbul, as well as the Turkish low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines, which connects Podgorica and the second Istanbul airport, Sabiha Gokcen. Turkish charter airline Tailwind Airlines also flew to Istanbul from Podgorica twice a week this summer.

The volume of regular air traffic between the two countries has seen a large increase in the last two years. After flying from Istanbul to Tivat last and this summer IATA season, Turkish Airlines will fly to Tivat for the first time during the winter, five times a week, while Air Montenegro has its winter service on this line with four flights a week, for the upcoming the winter IATA season, which starts at the end of October, raised to as many as seven weekly rotations.

"There is an unprecedented level of demand from Turkey for travel to Montenegro. Therefore, Turkish Airlines has already increased the number of its flights between the two countries, and recently Pegasus Airlines also operates on these lines. Together with Air Montenegro flights, we currently have 33 weekly rotations between Turkey and Montenegro. Our goal is for that traffic to grow to the figure of 50 weekly flights," the Turkish ambassador to Montenegro told the media Baris Kalkavan.