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Turkish Airlines
File:TurkishAirlineslogo.PNG
IATA ICAO Callsign
TK THY TURKAIR
Founded1933
HubsAtatürk Int'l Airport
Focus citiesEsenboga Int'l Airport
Sabiha Gokçen Int'l Airport
Frequent-flyer programMiles & Smiles
AllianceStar Alliance
(Observer Status)
Fleet size105
Destinations133
HeadquartersIstanbul, Turkey
Key peopleTemel Kotil (CEO)
Websitehttp://www.turkishairlines.com
Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 taking off

Turkish Airlines (Turkish Türk Hava Yolları) (THY) is the national airline of Turkey based in Istanbul. It operates a network of scheduled services to 103 international and 28 domestic cities, serving a total of 134 airports, in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Far East, Africa, and the United States. The airline's main base is Atatürk International Airport (IST), Istanbul, with secondary hubs at Esenboga International Airport (ESB), Ankara, and Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (SAW), Istanbul. In 2006, it carried 17.5 million passengers with total revenues of US$3 billion. [1] The airline has around 12,000 employees.

History

The airline was established on May 20, 1933, as the State Airlines Administration - Hava Yolları Devlet Işletmesi Idaresi. It began operations with an Istanbul, Eskişehir, Ankara service in August 1933. The name was changed to Devlet Hava Yolları Umum Müdürlüğü (DHY) 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 Yolları AO (THY) on 20 February 1956. The airline's shares were passed to the Prime Ministry Public Participation Administration in 1990, which took the company public first in December 1990 selling 5% of the shares. The government later sold about 23.0% of the shares to the public in December 2004 and a further 28.75% in May 2006. The airline is owned by TC Privatisation Administration (49%) and private shareholders (51%). It also has a 50% holding in affiliated airline SunExpress, the other half of which owned by Thomas Cook of Germany. It has set up in September 2006 an airline catering JV with Do&Co Restaurants & Catering of Austria. Turkish Airlines quit Qualiflyer group in 1999, due to incompatibilites with Swissair and Delta. The request of joining the Star Alliance has been accepted in December 2006; Turkish Airlines is expected to join the Alliance in late 2008

In the film "Snatch", the narrator played by Jason Statham is named "Turkish". He explains in his initial monologue that he is named in honor of a Turkish Airlines disaster.


Destinations

Further information: [[:Turkish Airlines destinations]]

Fleet

The Turkish Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft as of January 2007:

Turkish Airlines Fleet
Aircraft Total Passenger Capacity Notes
Airbus A310-200 7 208/210
Airbus A319-100 2<br(10 orders) 124 To be delivered between 2007 and 2008
Airbus A320-200 14 150/156
Airbus A321-200 9 155/186/195/202
Airbus A330-200 5 250
Airbus A340-300 7 271
Boeing 737-400 14 150
Boeing 737-800 41
(8 orders) 		165 To be delivered between 2007 and 2008
Total Number of Aircraft 104
(18 orders) 		Updated: April 2007
  • The airline has ordered 59 new planes (Boeing and Airbus) which will be delivered gradually until 2008.
Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 landing

Livery

Turkish Airlines's livery is a Eurowhite scheme, composed of primarily white with red accents.

Turkish Airlines Airbus A340-300 landing

Maintenance center

Turkish Airlines has a maintenance centre at its hub Atatürk International Airport, (IST) in Istanbul. Turkish Airlines Maintenance Center (THY Technic) is responsible for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of THY's all aircraft, engines, APUs and components.

Incidents and accidents

During its 72 year history, Turkish Airlines had three accidents on its international flights, and 18 on domestic flights. The most disastrous was Turkish Airlines Flight 981, which crashed in France on 3 March 1974 due to explosive decompression, killing all 346 people aboard. The main cause of this event was a design fault on the cargo doors of DC-10 aircraft. Before the Tenerife disaster, it was the worst aircraft disaster.

See also

References

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