Dhaka: Turkish Airlines June 21 announced to increase flight frequency on the Dhaka-Istanbul route to 10 weekly from July 7.

The move comes as Turkish Airlines celebrates its 10^th anniversary of successful operations in Bangladesh.

This milestone makes Turkish the only airline to operate direct flights between Bangladesh and Europe for the last 10 years.

Currently, the airline operates seven weekly flights on the Dhaka-Istanbul route. But from July 7, the national flag carrier of Turkey will operate 10 weekly flights on the route.

According to the updated flight schedule, the carrier will operate two flights on Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday along with one flight in seven days of the week, a press release confirmed.