Turkish US flights

KATHMANDU: Turkish Airlines Media Relations Office announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has removed the recent order that all airline carriers, regardless of country of registry, are prohibited from flying into the United States from Turkey either directly or via third country. Accordingly, all scheduled Turkish Airlines flights to the US has resumed starting July 19 with Turkish Airlines Istanbul-NYC flight at 06:45am, as per a press statement. Following the illegal failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 16, FAA had issued a ban of ‘all airline carriers, regardless of country of registry, are prohibited from flying into the United States from Turkey either directly or via third country’.