Turkish Airlines to start daily Sydney flights

Turkish Airlines is boosting its flights between Sydney and Istanbul, with plans to move to a daily schedule before launching non-stop flights in late 2026. The current timetable sees four flights per week – this will increase to five per week from mid-June, and then six flights each week from the end of October. Then on 12 January 2026, the Sydney-Istanbul (via Kuala Lumpur) flights will become daily. These flights will continue to feature the Star Alliance member’s modern Airbus A350-900, while an extended-range A350-1000 will take on the non-stop flights in late 2026. Direct Melbourne-Istanbul flights are expected to follow in 2027. Those long-legged A350s will be redesigned with the 17-hour marathon in mind, with Turkish Airlines CEO Bilal Eksi saying they “will be modified for the Australian routes” to include a substantially larger business class cabin featuring the new private Crystal business class suites.<br/>