This was announced on Wednesday during a press conference given by the airline chief commercial officer Brock Friesen and Turkish Airlines executive vice president commercial Orhan Sivrikaya.

The introduction of the first code-shared flights will commence this summer. The joint code allows Turkish Airlines to use their own flight numbers on flights operated by Air Malta. Passengers on both airlines will be able to benefit from a broader choice of connections via Istanbul to and from other destinations in Turkey and Turkish Airlines’ network beyond.