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The seven countries affected by the new restrictions imposed by France are Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Sri Lanka and Turkey. They join five other countries already considered to be at high risk of contagion since April 24 (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Africa and...

Turkish Airlines is once again offering a hot meal service on routes with a flight time of at least two hours 15 minutes. The service had been reduced to a strict minimum because of the pandemic. Boxes containing a cold meal had been available in all classes since last year...

Here's some good news for business travellers in Strasbourg: since Friday, they have had access to one of the world's major hubs, Istanbul Airport. Turkish Airlines began operations at Strasbourg airport on 31 May. The Star Alliance airline - which is gaining momentum at the Alsatian airport - will now be offering four...

It's almost a done deal. After three postponements of its full opening to traffic, New Istanbul Airport will finally take over all the activities of the current Istanbul Atatürk International Airport. The airport authorities, like the management of Turkish Airlines, have confirmed that the transfer will take place at 3am on Friday 5 April. [link-block prefix="A...

It was due to open in November 2018, then in December and finally in March 2019. Now it seems that Istanbul's new airport will have to postpone its grand opening yet again. In fact, the official opening last October was celebrated for purely political reasons, just to prove that the current President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had kept his promises...

Istanbul's new airport, "Istanbul New Airport", will finally open its doors on March 3, with all the airlines transferring flights from the existing Ataturk airport, as the airport authority recently announced to the Turkish press. This is the third time that the grand infrastructure has seen its opening to traffic postponed. So...

Economic crisis or not in Turkey, nothing should disrupt the opening of Europe's largest airport at the end of October. The new Istanbul airport - a provisional name pending a final decision - is located 35 km north of the city and is expected to handle up to 90 million passengers. By the next...

Many business travellers flying from Turkey and Tunisia to UK airports have been waiting for this since March. At the time, the United States and the UK decided to ban laptops and tablets in the cabin on departure from airports where the authorities felt there were insufficient security guarantees...

AccorHotels is continuing its policy of forging closer links in the luxury hotel sector. Following the collaboration announced last December with Banyan Tree for the co-development and management of the company's top-of-the-range resorts, the French group has entered into a strategic partnership with the Turkish hotelier Rixos. This agreement is in the same vein as the one...

Day 1: take off from Paris CDG at 7.50am and arrive in Istanbul at 12.20pm (time difference: + 1 hour, winter and summer). Transfer to the InterContinental hotel, snack and free time. In the late afternoon, stroll around Beyöglu. Dinner at the Topaz restaurant. Hotel InterContinental Istanbul - Electric views of the Bosphorus Docked in the emblematic Taksim Square, the...

Cultural, lively, festive: Turkey's business capital continues to attract foreign investors as well as tourists from all over the world. The proof: off to an excellent start, 2011 is set to end with a 15 % increase in the number of foreign visitors. But the Istanbul craze is not just about capital movements...

Of course, Istanbul is a city where the places where economic decisions are taken are strangely scattered. Of course, the large modern buildings crammed with class A offices tend to grow in the Maslak and Levent districts. But Taksim Square and its surrounding districts (Beyoglu, Harbiye...) remain...