Turkish Airlines

The airline was established on May 20, 1933 as the State Aviation Administration ( tour: Devlet Hava Yolları İşletmesi İdaresi ) (DHY). The first flights were carried out between Istanbul, Eskisehir and Ankara since August 1933. In September 1937, the airline received three De Havilland DH 86B biplanes. In December of the same year, the fourth aircraft arrived. These aircraft were used on domestic routes between Istanbul , Eskisehir , Izmir , Ankara , Adana , Kayseri and Diyarbakir . The company received a new name - Devlet Hava Yolları Umum Müdürlüğü (DHY) in June 1938. The first regular international flight took place in Athens in 1947, but the opening of long-haul flights to the Far East and across the Atlantic took place only after 40 years.

As a result of a major reorganization on February 20, 1956, the airline became a mixed corporation, Türk Hava Yolları . In December 1990, 5% of the shares were sold. Later, the government sold 23.0% of the shares in December 2004 and 28.75% in May 2006.

Currently, 49% of the shares are owned by the state and 51% by private owners. In addition, Lufthansa owns 50% of SunExpress affiliate airline. Turkish Airlines left the Qualiflyer group in 1999, as it could not be compatible with Swissair and Delta.

In December 2006, it was decided that Turkish Airlines would join the Star Alliance . Since April 1, 2008, Turkish Airlines joined the alliance as a full member.

In 2012-2015, it was one of the ten best airlines in the world ^{[5] [6] [7]} .

Turkish Airlines flies from 42 airports in Turkey. Turkish Airlines is the leader in domestic flights, taking into account the low-cost division of AnadoluJet. Competitors are Onur Air , Pegasus , SunExpress (50% of which is owned by Turkish Airlines) and Atlasjet .

Most of the Turkish Airlines international flights are operated from Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul , from where the duration of flights to 50 countries where flights operate is no more than three hours. Turkish Airlines serves 220 destinations outside of Turkey in about 108 countries. Flights are made across the Atlantic Ocean to North America - Atlanta , Boston , Washington , Havana , Cancun , Los Angeles , Miami , Mexico City , Montreal , New York , Panama , San Francisco , Toronto , Chicago and Houston , to South - Bogota , Buenos Aires , Caracas , Sao Paulo .

The largest destinations in Asia are Bangkok , Hong Kong , Guangzhou , Jakarta , Kuala Lumpur , Manila , Beijing , Phuket , Seoul , Singapore , Shanghai , Taipei , Tokyo , Ulaanbaatar , Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) . ^[8]

Turkish Airlines announced planned flights to Newark; medium-haul flights to Abha, Aswan, Atyrau, Volgograd, Juba, Kassel, Krakow, La Coruna, Lankaran, Luanda, Makhachkala, Nantes, Newark, Palermo and Xi'an in 2020 [1] , however, due to delays in the arrival of new aircraft these deadlines will not be met.

Activities in Russia

The airline operates regular flights to Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnodar, Moscow ( Vnukovo Airport ), Rostov-on-Don, Samara, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Ufa.

Turkish airlines were selected as the official carrier by such European football clubs as Barcelona , Borussia Dortmund , Galatasaray , Olympic de Marseille ^[9] , Aston Villa , FC Sarajevo , Hanover -96 " and " A. S. Roma . " ^[10] In 2016, Turkish Airlines teamed up with a number of Turkish travel agencies in the production of the romantic comedy film “No Returns”. ^[eleven]

The airline has also sponsored and promoted prominent athletes and actors like Lionel Messi , Kobe Bryant , Caroline Wozniacki , Kevin Costner , Wayne Rooney and Didier Drogba . ^[12]

The company has been the main sponsor of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague since 2010 ^[13] and has been among the sponsors of the 2010 FIBA World Cup .

Turkish Airlines and the Euroleague , on October 22, 2013 signed an agreement to extend the sponsorship agreement by five years until 2020 . ^[fourteen]

Turkish Airlines sponsored the Galatasaray and FC Sarajevo football clubs for the 2014–2015 UEFA Champions League .

December 10, 2015 Turkish Airlines and UEFA signed a sponsorship agreement for EURO 2016 , becoming the first sponsor of the European Football Championship tournaments. ^[fifteen]

January 29, 2016 Turkish Airlines announced its partnership with Warner Bros. to sponsor Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice . In the film, the main scene unfolds aboard Turkish Airlines A330 . ^[16]

Turkish Airlines entered into code-sharing agreements with the following carriers, except for Star Alliance airlines:

As of July 2018, the Turkish Airlines fleet consists of 328 aircraft, not counting the fleet of subsidiaries ^[17] :

The Turkish Aviation Academy was established by the 28th Board of Directors on November 10, 2004 and began training with 16 cadets on May 1, 2006. The Aviation Academy is located at Ataturk International Airport, Istanbul (IST) and uses the nearby Corlu Airport for training activities. ^[23]

For three consecutive years, in 2011, 2012 and 2013, Turkish Airlines received Skytrax awards for the Best Airline in Europe , the Best Airline in Southern Europe and the Best Premium Seat for Economy Class Airlines in the world. ^[24]

He maintained his status as the best European airline in 2014, 2015 and 2016, holding the title for six consecutive years. ^{[25] [26]}

In November 2017, Turkish Airlines was recognized as the “16th best airline in the world for business travel” by CEOWORLD. ^[27]

Over the 75 years of history, four air crashes on international flights and 18 on domestic flights occurred with Turkish Airlines.

• The first Turkish airline crash occurred on February 17, 1959 with a Vickers Viscount Type 793 aircraft, registration number TC-SEV, which crashed in dense fog upon landing at London's Gatwick airport . Among the passengers on the plane were Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and a government delegation heading for London to sign the Cyprus Status Agreement. Menderes was one of ten survivors (there were 8 crew members and 16 passengers on board).

• The crash of Flight 981 , which occurred in France on March 3, 1974, claimed the most lives, as a result of decompression killed all 346 people on board. The reason was the structural error of the cargo exit on the DC-10 . Before the plane crash in Tenerife, it was a plane crash with the largest number of casualties.

• On February 25, 2009, a Turkish Airlines plane crashed on a TK 1951 plane crashed while landing at Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport. It had 127 passengers and seven crew members on board. Boeing 737-800NG (tail number TC-JGE) fell near a busy highway and fell into three parts. The tragedy occurred due to the failure of the radio altimeter, which gave the wrong testimony to the computer. On-board electronics decided that the aircraft was located above the landing strip and the traction machine switched the engine mode to “low gas”. The commander of the ship was busy changing the configuration of the aircraft in the "landing", simultaneously instructing the co-pilot, who had an internship. An additional third pilot, who is introduced to the crew to assist the commander during training flights, did not pay attention to the action of the automatic traction control device and the drop in the "air" speed of the aircraft. Having lost speed and not having a reserve for height, the plane began to fail from the glide path. The commander responded by manually adding engines to the regime, but it was too late. As a result of the crash, 9 people were killed, including crew members.

• Anadolujet - "budget" English. low-cost division of Turkish Airlines.
• SunExpress is a joint venture of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa , an airline based in Antalya .
• B&H Airlines is the flagship carrier of Bosnia and Herzegovina, based in Sarajevo .

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