Turkey's national flag carrier launches flights to Mosul

ISTANBUL (A.A) - Turkish national airline company operated its maiden flight to the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday. Turkish Airlines (THY) launched Istanbul-Mosul flights. Mosul has become THY's sixth destination in Iraq after Baghdad, Irbil, Basra, Sulaymaniyah and Najaf. THY will fly to Mosul four times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. With Mosul flights, THY has become the airline company operating flights to more Iraqi cities than other foreign airline companies.  Thus, THY is flying to 190 destinations around the world, including 42 domestic and 148 international. Turkish Airlines is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey, headquartered in Istanbul. It operates scheduled services to 146 international and 41 domestic cities (38 domestic airports), serving a total of 187 airports, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. In 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 THY carried 17 million, 19.7 million, 22.5 million, 25.1 million and 29 million passengers with total revenues of US$2.23, $3.0, $4.5, $4 and $5.6 billion, respectively. The number of passengers carried by THY in the first nine months of 2011 rose by 11 percent to 24.3 million compared with the same period of last year.