How Turkish Air Will Recover After Airport Attacks and Coup Plot

Few airlines have expanded as rapidly in the past decade as Turkish Airlines, including in the United States, where it now serves nine cities and Europe, where it flies to roughly 100. But in recent weeks, Turkish has had more setbacks than any other airline, first with a major terrorist attack at its Istanbul hub, and then with an attempted coup in Turkey, which lead U.S. officials to ban all of its flights in and out of the U.S. for three days. Turkish's U.S. flights resumed Tuesday after American officials confirmed security at Istanbul Atatürk Airport met their standards. But given Turkish's recent problems, it's not clear whether or when passengers from the United States and Europe will return en masse to Turkey's national airline. This is important, because one of the airline's strengths is not bringing visitors to Turkey, but carrying international connecting traffic, especially Americans and Europeans traveling to second and third tier cities in Africa and the Middle