Turkish Cargo is offering new services to two cities: Chicago and Kuwait City. The all-cargo weekly flight to Chicago O’Hare will supplement the already healthy belly capacity currently available in multiple Turkish passenger flights to cities in both the US and Canada. The flight to Kuwait will also be operated once every week, heading non-stop to Kuwait City on Tuesdays and returning via Dubai World Central on the same day. Both routes will be flown with A330-200Fs. For … [Read more...] about Turkish Cargo adds two destinations
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SAS sells another slot pair at Heathrow
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has entered into a slot transaction with Turkish Airlines that will take over one afternoon slot-pair at London Heathrow from SAS at the beginning of the winter traffic programme on 25 October 2015. The transaction will generate a positive earnings impact of MUSD 22 for SAS to be accounted for during the second quarter with a corresponding cash effect during calendar year 2015. As part of creating balance between frequencies and capacity during the day and … [Read more...] about SAS sells another slot pair at Heathrow
Turkish Airlines orders four additional A330-200 freighters
Turkish Airlines has signed a firm order for the purchase of four A330-200F freighter aircraft. Operated by Turkish Cargo, the additional aircraft will help to further boost the company’s expansion in the cargo market. Turkish Airlines already operates five A330-200F, and the additional order will enable them to quickly meet the growing cargo market demand. “The A330-200F freighter aircraft have demonstrated outstanding operational reliability and performance for our cargo transport … [Read more...] about Turkish Airlines orders four additional A330-200 freighters
Turkish Cargo gains altitude
A quickening pace of expansion, although not on the level of the Gulf carriers, can perhaps best be characterised now as 'aggressive', kicked off in 2008 when the carrier issued one of the world's largest commercial aircraft purchase tenders at the time, for 105 aircraft valued at US$6 billion. This was given an added boost by investment last year in both widebody passenger and maindeck capacity as the Istanbul-based carrier moves decidedly further into the cargo realm. With a fleet of 170 … [Read more...] about Turkish Cargo gains altitude
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Turkish Airlines has signed a contract for the purchase of seven Airbus A330- 300 aircraft, firming up a Memorandum of Understanding signed during Le Bourget Airshow in June 2009. The aircraft, due for delivery from September 2010, will be operated on high capacity medium haul routes. … [Read more...] about Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines keeps growth firmly in its sights
The global recession seems to have had no impact on its operations – the airline carried 3.1 million passengers in the first two months of the year, a rise of 9 per cent from a year earlier and cargo too is up 3.4 per cent, emphasising just what the carrier’s CEO, Temel Kotil, had told PayloadAsia in Delhi, a few months ago. On the eve of launching the daily services from Delhi and Mumbai to Istanbul, Dr Kotil had said that there had been no reduction in the … [Read more...] about Turkish Airlines keeps growth firmly in its sights
