Military Coup in Turkey - all flights cancelled

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There is a military coup tonight in Turkey.

All flights out of the country are cancelled.

Strumms

Here is a link for the Department of Foreign Affairs site regarding travel to Turkey and support contacts for those there. I hasten to add it has not been updated yet but with the coup only in it's infancy I'd guess it will be updated at some point...

https://www.dfa.ie/travel/travel-advice/a-z-list-of-countries/turkey/

Hmm_Messiah

Rylan Sour Mucous wrote: »

There is a military coup tonight in Turkey.

All flights out of the country are cancelled.

I was just going to ask about this - 3 chinese friends are traveling to London (then Ireland) on Tuesday 19th !! via Istanbul. They have never flown internationally so will not understand such things , not that i do myself

BUt I am wondering what happens - is there any possibility the flights are re-arranged to a different city/country etc ?


I do not mean to be insensitive about the bigger picture of what might happen in Turkey, but two of these travellers are in their 60's and I am wondering - when they ask me - is there any way their trip might be rescued

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Hmm_Messiah wrote: »

I was just going to ask about this - 3 chinese friends are traveling to London (then Ireland) on Tuesday 19th !! via Istanbul. They have never flown internationally so will not understand such things , not that i do myself

BUt I am wondering what happens - is there any possibility the flights are re-arranged to a different city/country etc ?


I do not mean to be insensitive about the bigger picture of what might happen in Turkey, but two of these travellers are in their 60's and I am wondering - when they ask me - is there any way their trip might be rescued

wont know till tomorrow

clo1

i am inthe position myself,i fly via turkey tk thailand on tuesday,not looking good that i wilk get there at all.imhoping for news soon so i can either rebook anither flight or maybe they wikk offer a detour for us!?i dont know

Hmm_Messiah

is there a website to check - i tried Istanbul airports but it is a nightmare to load

i see some cancelled some with nothing beside them

tried flightstats website but it is not loading the 19th ( tomorrows 17th is cancelled but I dunno if two days will make a big difference)

JCX BXC

Flights should be mostly back to normal by tomorrow (Sunday) should the government keep power.

Hmm_Messiah

i see finally on turkish airlines that todays flight diverted to izmir

tomorrow is cancelled

18th is showing no change

19th (the chinese people's flight) not showing yet) _ iguess they just go with the original plan

they also flashed up the attached but the english is poor
I think it says it IS back to routine ??

killbillvol2

They were back to normal really quickly a couple of weeks ago after bombs at the airport so I'd say a minor thing :eek: like a thwarted coup would be even less disruptive.

EDIT/ A friend of mine who's in Istanbul says word locally is that Turkish Airlines flights should be back to normal tomorrow with some delays. In fact Turkish Airlines flights have already resumed?