Dear Passengers,

Our 2002-2003 Winter Timetable goes into effect on Sunday 27 October. Turkish Airlines is leaving behind a successful and busy summer season thanks to the support of our passengers and the dedicated work of our staff. We aim to maintain the high performance we achieved during the summer season during the coming winter season.

Our Winter Timetable, which will take us up to 29 March 2003, will offer flights to 26 domestic and 77 international destinations, making a total of 103. Flight times have been adjusted to facilitate connections, with minimum transit waits for passengers from Istanbul and Ankara. Due to high demand our domestic flights between Ankara and Diyarbakýr have been increased from 9 to 10 per week, and between Istanbul and Gaziantep from 14 to 17 per week.
Where our international flights are concerned, we are introducing innovations to Turkish Airlines' safe and comfortable transportation network linking four world continents. Our Hong Kong flights commence on Monday 28 October 2002. From now on we will be flying to Hong Kong on Mondays and Saturdays via Bangkok instead of Kuala Lumpur

As a result our destination points in China are increasing to three, together with Beijing and Shanghai. We are continuing to fly to Tokyo and Osaka in Japan and Seoul in Korea, making 5 destinations in northern Asia in all. And in southeast Asia we are flying to 8 destinations, including Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
We wish you happy travelling with your airline, THY, during the winter season of 2002-2003.

Yusuf BOLAYIRLI
President and CEO