Turkey’s flagship carrier, Turkish Airlines (THY), will begin daily flights between İstanbul and the Armenian capital of Yerevan starting March 11, 2026, according to flight schedule information shared by Serdar Kılıç, a former ambassador and Turkey’s special envoy for Armenia relations.
The İstanbul–Yerevan–İstanbul route will initially operate seven times a week. The number of weekly flights is set to increase to 10 as of May 14, 2026, and to 14 from June 15, 2026, the schedule shows.
Yeni bir adım daha. Bu defa da bayrak taşıyıcımız THY 11 Mart 2026 tarihinden itibaren her gün olacak şekilde İstanbul-Erivan-İstanbul seferlerine başlıyor. pic.twitter.com/xqdrE5yJcJ
— Serdar KILIÇ (@serdarkilic9) December 22, 2025
In October, the airline said in a notification to Turkey’s Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) that its board of directors had approved the start of scheduled flights to Yerevan and Timișoara, a city in western Romania, “depending on opportunities and market conditions.”
At the time it provided no specific information on when the flights would begin or how frequently they would operate.
The launch of daily flights marks another step in the gradual normalization of air links between Turkey and Armenia, whose borders remain closed despite limited diplomatic engagement in recent years.
Armenia and Turkey have no diplomatic relations, a closed land border and a long history of hostility rooted in the mass killing of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
As a result flights between the two countries have been limited in recent decades due to the longstanding political tensions.
The route was previously served by Turkey’s now-defunct AtlasJet and resumed in February 2022, when Moldova’s low-cost carrier FlyOne, which has a subsidiary in Armenia, launched services to İstanbul, followed by Turkish low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines with flights between İstanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport and Yerevan.
Pegasus currently operates daily flights between the two cities. THY is expected to tap into a large transit market, particularly among diaspora Armenians in the United States, with Los Angeles seen as a key hub.
The announcement comes as Turkey and Armenia continue their cautious dialogue aimed at normalizing relations after decades of hostility. In September representatives of both countries held their sixth round of talks in Yerevan, the first such meeting on Armenian soil.
Following that meeting Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said both sides agreed to make preparations that would allow multiple airlines to operate flights between the two countries starting in the summer of 2026, with the aim of increasing routes and frequency.