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Turkish Airlines (Turkey)

Turkish Airlines
Türk Hava Yollar
IATA
TK		 ICAO
THY		 Callsign
TURK AIR
Founded 1933
Hubs Atatürk Int'l Airport
Secondary hubs Esenboga International Airport
Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
Frequent flyer program Miles & Smiles
Alliance Star Alliance
Fleet size 104
Destinations 140 (32 dom + 108 intl)
Headquarters stanbul, Turkey
Key people Candan Karltekin (Chairman), Temel Kotil (CEO)
Website: http://www.thy.com/

Turkish Airlines, Inc. (Turkish Türk Hava Yollar Anonim Ortakl) (THY) is the national airline of Turkey based in stanbul. It operates a network of scheduled services to 123 international and 32 domestic cities, serving a total of 155 airports, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States. The airline's main base is Atatürk International Airport (IST), stanbul, with secondary hubs at Esenboga International Airport (ESB), Ankara, and Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (SAW), stanbul. In 2006 and 2007 it carried 17 million and 19.7 million passengers with total revenues of US$2.3 and US$3 billion, respectively. [1] The airline has around 12,000 employees. as of April 1, 2008, THY is an official member of Star Alliance.

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History

The airline was established on May 20, 1933, as the State Airlines Administration  Devlet Hava Yollar letmesi daresi (DHY). It began operations with an stanbul, Eskiehir, Ankara service in August 1933. In September 1937, the airline received three De Havilland D.H. 86B biplane airliners.

The following December, DHY received the fourth plane. These planes enlarged the domestic routes of DHY to the destination of stanbul, Eskisehir, Izmir, Ankara, Adana, Kayseri and Diyarbakr.[1] The name was changed to Devlet Hava Yollar Umum Müdürlüü (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 Yollar 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 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 Lufthansa of Germany. It has set up in September 2006 an airline catering JV with Do&Co Restaurants & Catering of Austria. Turkish Airlines quit the Qualiflyer group in 1999, due to incompatibilities with Swissair and Delta.

A request to join the Star Alliance has been accepted in December 2006. On April 1, 2008, Turkish Airlines joined the Alliance as a full member.

Destinations

Further information: Turkish Airlines destinations

Codeshare agreements

Turkish Airlines have codeshare agreements with the following carriers:

Note: This list includes Star Alliance (SA) partners. Turkish Airlines joined the Star Alliance on 1 April 2008.

Cargo

Turkish Airlines Cargo is the freight branch of Turkish Airlines, operating to Asia, Middle East and Europe.

Turkish Airlines Cargo Fleet
Aircraft Total Capacity
(Max.Weight)		 Routes Notes
Airbus A310-300F 3 Europe and Asia More to be added
after conversion from passenger fleet

Fleet

The Turkish Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft as of May 2008:

Turkish Airlines Fleet
Aircraft Total Passenger Capacity
(Business/Economy)		 Routes Notes
Airbus A310-200/300 3 208 (18/190)
210 (18/192)
Airbus A319-100 2 124 (12/112)
Airbus A320-200 16 150 (0/150)
156 (0/156)
Airbus A321-200 17
 186 (15/171)
195 (15/180)
202 (15/187)
Airbus A330-200 5 250 (22/228) Europe, Middle East and the Far East
Airbus A340-300 7 271 (34/237) North America and the Far East
Boeing 737-400 9 150 (12/138)
Boeing 737-800 42 165 (90/75)
Total 104

Affinity programs

Miles & Smiles is the frequent flyer program of Turkish Airlines, started after the airline left Qualiflyer. The earned miles can be used in Turkish Airlines' flights, as well as flights on Lufthansa, including the entire Star Alliance.

Livery

Turkish Airlines' livery is white fuselage with blue lettering and a red tail with white circle with the company logo. Also, Turkish Airlines has added tulip figures on its aircraft, starting from the front part till the tail.

New logo

A modified logo has recently been introduced. There are few changes. The most predominant of the changes is the logo's switch from a red emblem on a white background to a white emblem on a red background.

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 75 year history, Turkish Airlines has had three accidents on its international flights, and 18 on domestic flights.

The airline's first accident occurred on February 17, 1959, when a Vickers Viscount Type 793, registration TC-SEV, crashed in heavy fog just before landing at London Gatwick Airport. The flight was carrying Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and a governmental delegation to London for signing the London Agreements on the Cyprus issue. Menderes was among the ten survivors of 8 crew and 16 passengers on board.

The deadliest 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 was a design fault on the cargo doors of DC-10 aircraft. Prior to the Tenerife disaster, it was the deadliest aircraft disaster.

See also

References

  1. ^ Commercial Aircraft and Airline Markings edited by Christopher Chant

External links

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