China has opened an investigation into Turkish Airlines, Turkey’s flag carrier, over unduly high ticket prices on flights between Istanbul and Guangzhou.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China will start looking into the airfares and handle the case according to the law and regulations if any violations are turned up, the watchdog announced on its website yesterday.
Recent reports said tickets for the Istanbul-Guangzhou route flown by Turkish Airlines cost more than CNY200,000 (USD31,380) for economy class and over CNY250,000 for business class. In comparison, flights between London and Shanghai with the same carrier cost only CNY13,000 (USD2,040) before the outbreak of Covid-19.