‘Special Fee’ for Returning to Our Country from Countries Neighboring Ukraine

Although reactions to Russia continue to come from many of the European countries, Russia continues to attack the territory of Ukraine. The images of thousands of people injured, their homes destroyed, the sounds of warplanes and sirens over their cities, unfortunately, continue to tear us all apart. A large number of people in Ukraine have come to the border gates to leave the country.

For thousands of people who want to leave the country, THY General Manager Bilal Ekşi shared an announcement with a tweet that they hope to help our citizens in Ukraine return to Turkey. Ekşi, our compatriots countries neighboring Ukraine from Moldova, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania He said that they could return to Turkey by purchasing ‘special fee’ tickets.

THY General Manager Bilal Ekşi shared that:

Due to the closed airspace in Ukraine, to use the road for people evacuated continuing. Turkish Airlines started to organize flights from Ukraine’s neighboring countries to Turkey in order to speed up evacuation and facilitate evacuation. The ‘special fee’ to be paid by our citizens who will be able to return to Turkey with these flights 220 dollars fixed as.

While we continue to convey the developments between Ukraine and Russia, we would like to state that we are against any kind of war. In any case, in these days when we are about to leave the second month of 2022 behind, we hope that the persecution carried out under the name of ‘war’, which keeps people from their homes, loved ones and families, will come to an end as soon as possible.