Turkish Airlines
irline=Turkish Airlines|
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fleet_size=101 |
destinations=133|
IATA=TK|
ICAO=THY|
callsign=Turkish|
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founded=1933|
headquarters=
Istanbul,
Turkey|
key_people=Temel Kotil |
hubs=Atatrk Int'l Airport|
focus_cities=Esenboga Int'l AirportSabiha Goken Int'l Airport|
frequent_flyer=Miles & Smiles|
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alliance=Star Alliance |
website= Airlines is the national
airline of
Turkey based in
Istanbul. It operates a network of scheduled services to
Europe, the
Middle East, the
Far East,
North Africa,
South Africa and the
United States.
Encyclopedia
Turkish Airlines is the national
airline of
Turkey based in
Istanbul. It operates a network of scheduled services to
Europe, the
Middle East, the
Far East,
North Africa,
South Africa and the
United States. The airline's main base is
Atatürk International Airport , Istanbul, with secondary hubs at Esenboga International Airport ,
Ankara, and Sabiha Gokcen International Airport , Istanbul.
History
The airline was established on May 20, 1933, as the State Airlines Administration -
Hava Yollari Devlet Isletmesi Idaresi. It began operations with an Istanbul,
Eskisehir, Ankara service in August 1933. The name was changed to
Devlet Hava Yollari Umum Müdürlügü in June 1938. The first international flight was launched in 1947 to
Athens but it was another 40 years before the introduction of long-haul flights to the Far East and across the
Atlantic.
In a major reorganisation the state company DHY was replaced with a mixed corporation, Türk Hava Yollari AO on 20 February 1956. The airline's shares were passed to the prime ministry public participation administration in 1990 and about 24.8% of the shares were sold to the public. The airline is owned by TC Privatisation Administration and private shareholders . The airline has around 12,000 employees. It also has a 50% holding in affiliated airline
SunExpress, the other half of which owned by Thomas Cook of Germany.
Destinations
Main article: Turkish Airlines destinations
New Routes
It inaugurates a nonstop services on May 2006, as follows :
- Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen-Van : daily service is operated with a Boeing737-400 and is in addition to daily B737-800 service operated from Istanbul's Ataturk .
- Istanbul-Minsk: 2 flights a week, on Mon/Thursday, using an Airbus 320.
- Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen-Hannover on June 2006 : 2 flights a week dep Istanbul on Mon/Thursday and Hannover on Tue/Friday operated with a Boeing 737-800. This service is in addition to 8 weekly B737-800 flights from Istanbul's Ataturk increasing to 13 in July 2006.
- Istanbul-Lagos on June 2006 : 2 flights a week, on Thu/Saturday, using an Airbus 310-300.
Major Incidents and Accidents
During its 72 year history, Turkish Airlines had three accidents on its international flights, and 18 on the domestic. The most disastrous was Turkish Airlines Flight 981, that crashed in France on 3 March 1974 due to explosive decompression, killing all 346 passengers aboard. The main cause of this event was a design fault on the cargo doors of DC-10 aircrafts. Before the Tenerife disaster, it was the worst aircraft disaster.
Fleet
| # of aircraft | Aircraft type | Passenger capacity | Max operating range |
|---|
| 7 | Airbus A340-311/313 | 271 | 11,952 |
| 5 | Airbus A330-200 | 250 | 12,000 |
| 8 | Airbus A321-111/231/211 | 155 / 186 / 195 / 202 | 2,250 / 3,200 |
| 14 | Airbus A320-214/232 | 150 / 156 / 167 / 168 | 3,350 |
| 2 | Airbus A319-132 | | 3,900 |
| 7 | Airbus A310-304 | 208 / 210 | 8,100 / 8,980 |
| 41 | Boeing 737-800 | 165 | 4,755 |
| 17 | Boeing 737-400 | 148 / 150 / 152 | 3,350 |
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- The fleet is under a major expansion with the purchase of 59 new planes which will be delivered gradually until 2008.
- Total fleet as for August 2006 is 101 airplanes.
The average age of Turkish Airlines fleet is 9.2 years old in April 2006.
Livery
Turkish Airlines's livery is a Eurowhite scheme, composed of primarily white with red accents.
Turkish Airlines Maintenance Centre
Turkish Airlines has a maintenance centre at its hub
Atatürk International Airport, in Istanbul.
Turkish Airlines Maintenance Center is responsible for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of THY's all aircraft, engines, APUs and components.
See also
- SunExpress Daughter company of Turkish Airlines based in Antalya
External links
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