#Orient

Touristic Orient Express started its new season flights

Touristic Orient Express, one of the top 4 routes to travel by train in the world, started its first flight of the 2022-2023 season. Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure TCDD Taşımacılık AŞ General Directorate Touristic Orient Express started its first flight for the 2022-2023 period. Touristic Orient Express, which started its first flight this season, will carry 13 thousand 760 passengers on 86 flights in the 2022-2023 period. The Touristic Orient Express, which took off on its maiden voyage on May 29, 2019, attracted great interest from passengers, carried out 62 flights in the 2021-2022 period and carried a total of 13 thousand 544 passengers. Consisting of dining and sleeping wagons, the Touristic Orient Express train, which departs from Ankara as a concept, passes through the provinces of Kırıkkale, Kayseri, Sivas, Erzincan, Erzurum and Kars, respectively.                              The Touristic Orient Express, consisting entirely of sleeping cars, will depart from Ankara at 15.55 on Wednesdays and Fridays and from Kars at 22.20 on Fridays and Sundays, completing its journey between Ankara - Kars - Ankara in approximately 32 hours. The train, which will run 86 times until March 22, 2023, will host 13 thousand 760 passengers.