New Service between Kuala Lumpur and Istanbul
Akasa Air to launch flights between Mumbai and Phuket
New Service between Kuala Lumpur and Istanbul
Akasa Air to launch flights between Mumbai and Phuket
August 14th, 2025. Starting from November 14th, AirAsia X will commence services between Kuala Lumpur and Istanbul.
Straddling the Bosphorus with one part in Europe and the other in Asia, Istanbul has a history stretching over one and a half millennia. In the past, it has been known as Byzantium and Constantinople, it has seen empires crumble, witnessed several crusades and has occupied a strategic position on the ancient Silk Road.
Today, the city is Turkey’s commercial and cultural centre, and its historic heart is a Unesco World Heritage site. Istanbul is also known for its large population of street cats.
Flight number D7604 will take off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 09:35 on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and will arrive at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen International Airport at 16:05. The return journey will leave Istanbul at 17:20 and touch down again in Kuala Lumpur at 08:40 the next morning.
The route will be served by Airbus A330-300 aircraft, and the journey time will be about eleven and a half hours for the outbound flight and an hour less for the return.
Mumbai to Phuket
Akasa Air has earmarked September 20th to launch a new service between Mumbai and Phuket in southern Thailand
Flight number QP0618 will take off from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport at 07:40 and arrive at Phuket International Airport at 14:35. The return leg, flight number QP0619, will leave Phuket at 15:35 and arrive back in Mumbai at 19:15.
The journey will be approximately five and a half hours in each direction, and Boeing 737 MAX aircraft will serve the route.
Picture: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul by Arild Vågen via Wikimedia Commons
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