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Posted by- Neelam Mathews June 4, 2013 Air Astana and Turkish Airlines, award-winning carriers from Central Asia and Europe, have signed a codeshare agreement on routes between Kazakhstan and Turkey. The agreement was signed at the IATA Annual General Meeting in Cape Town by Peter Foster, President of Air Astana, and Dr Temel Kotil, President and CEO of Turkish Airlines. Air Astana and Turkish Airlines signed the Letter of Intent to expand the range of cooperation between the two carriers in March 2013. The codeshare agreement allowed passengers to benefit from a higher number of combined frequencies for better connectivity and increased travel flexibility between the two countries. Codesharing on flights between Almaty - Istanbul and Astana – Istanbul additionally include special prorate agreements on sectors beyond respective hubs in Almaty, Astana and Istanbul. “ The code-share agreement signed today is the latest step in the increasingly close link between  the two airlines;...

Asia-Pacific Aviation Daily Jan 13 , 2011 , p. 12 Neelam Mathews A code-share alliance signed with Turkish Airlines may be a step for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) toward becoming a member of Star Alliance , a PIA spokesman was quoted telling a national daily, but this could not be confirmed with Star Alliance. PIA will operate daily flights from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad to Istanbul and onward to more than 128 international destinations under a code-share arrangement with Turkish Airlines. The code share had created misgivings that were later cleared with the PIA employees associations that their jobs would be cut as a result of the agreement. PIA has embarked on a five-year cost-cutting plan for human resources, fleet maintenance and yield enhancement, Chairman Ahmed Mukhtar said in October last year. PIA was the first airline in the world to operate all three variants of the 777 family—the 777-2...