
2026-2027 winter season tickets go on sale today
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TCDD Transportation reported that the Touristic Eastern Express has attracted great interest since 2019 and has served more than 90 thousand passengers. 70 flights are planned for the 2026-2027 winter season, and tickets go on sale today.
Evrin Güvendik - TCDD Taşımacılık A.Ş. General Manager Ufuk Yalçın said at the Turkish Grand National Assembly SOE Commission that they offer the opportunity to discover Turkey's natural, historical and cultural riches by rail travel with touristic trains.
Emphasizing that the Touristic Eastern Express, which will make its first voyage of the 2026-2027 winter season on December 21, has attracted great attention since 2019, Yalçın said, "Touristic Eastern Express has become an important tourism brand with more than 90 thousand passengers, with the views it offers on the Ankara-Kars line and its comfortable travel experience. As of 2025-2026, 10 thousand passengers will travel with the Touristic Eastern Express." "166 passengers traveled," he said.
new routes
Yalçın said, "In order to diversify our touristic train operations on different routes, our services continue with the Touristic Diyarbakır Express and Kars-Erzurum Regional Touristic Train. New options such as the Touristic Tatvan Train are also being evaluated in line with demand and operational planning. Likewise, our special trains such as the Touristic Tuz Express and Touristic Karaelmas Express provide our passengers with the opportunity to explore different destinations."
Tickets are on sale today
In his written statement, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu stated that Touristic Eastern Express new season tickets will go on sale for individual passengers today at 13.55. Uraloğlu gave the information: "Touristic Eastern Express will operate a total of 70 flights in the 2026-2027 winter season, 35 in both directions. Our flights in the Ankara-Kars direction will be between 21 December 2026-10 March 2027, and our flights in the Kars-Ankara direction will be between 23 December 2026-12 March 2027."
Kars Tourism Association President Halit Özer announced the flight schedule and ticket prices for the 2026-2027 winter season. Accordingly, compartment prices will be 15 thousand TL in December, 18 thousand TL in late January and 20 thousand TL during the semester break. 60 percent of the tickets are offered for sale through TÜRSAB-approved travel agencies, and 40 percent are offered directly through TCDD Transportation. Passengers can access the tickets allocated for direct sale via TCDD's mobile application.
We are leaders in 'On Time'
Fatih Çakmak, General Manager of State Airports Authority (DHMİ), explained the activities and goals of the institution at the Turkish Grand National Assembly SOE Commission. Çakmak said that Turkey ranked fifth among European countries in terms of passenger traffic in 2019, and rose to third place in 2025. While it ranked 10th in the world in 2019, it rose to seventh place in 2025.
Çakmak said, "At Istanbul Airport, our on-time arrival rate for flights, called "on time", was 77 percent and our departure rate was 81 percent. We are ranked first in the world in the highest level of on-time scheduling."
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In the 2026-2027 winter season, 70 trips of the Touristic Eastern Express will be carried out as planned.
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