Pegasus set to launch Karachi-Istanbul flights at low cost from September 25

By Masood Sattar Khan
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

Low-cost Turkish airline Pegasus has planned to launch flights from Karachi to Istanbul starting on September 25. 

The flights from the Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, to Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport will depart every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 04:55 am. 

Pegasus Airlines will connect passengers from Karachi to its destinations in Manchester, London, Zurich, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Cologne, Brussels, Kyiv, Bucharest, Kharkiv, Moscow, Stuttgart, Geneva, Barcelona, Marseille, Zaporizhia and Prague, via Istanbul. 

The airline was founded in 1990 and is Turkey’s first low-cost airline. It has partnered with Gerry’s Group in Pakistan, according to a press release. The airline also plans to operate from Islamabad in future.