RNOcommctr From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 825 posts, RR: 4 Posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 7977 times:
The mayor of Houston has just announced non-stop service by Turkish Airlines, IAH-IST. Apparently this service will begin within a matter of a few months. Sorry I can't post the link right now.
I suppose UA will want this flight to use Hobby... Haha....
MaverickM11 From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 15727 posts, RR: 47 Reply 2, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 7659 times:
MaverickM11 From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 15727 posts, RR: 47 Reply 5, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 7606 times:
Quoting mogandoCI (Reply 3): BOS is getting NRT, IST, and DOH all within a short duration. surprised how airlines have been neglecting it for years.
Well let's not get ahead of ourselves--they all could find why it was neglected for all those years.
LAXintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22030 posts, RR: 51 Reply 6, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 7530 times:
Let me translate for those that are not well versed with THY.
THY executives, and Turkish government ministers on a regular basis travel the world and meet various groups. Virtually every month there are stories that route A, B and C will be launched by TK.
While THY does indeed plan to open ever more destinations, until you actually see a schedule filing with actual start up date, and the required Turkish regulatory filing that goes along with it, I would caution one not to read too much into these pronouncements, or bet your house on them.
What makes IAH a bit more likely now is that Turkey this week opened a trade office in Houston, and obviously the airport host a Star Alliance hub. Additionally I know there has been some background studies and traffic modeling on South East Asian communities in Texas - particularly the Pakistani community in Houston.
From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California
BOStonsox From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 1887 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 7530 times:
There is nothing in the Boston press about this. I'm sure it'll come soon, like DOH, but until I see an official press release, I'll take this with a grain of salt.
Um, no. Nothing has been announced. Turkish continues to "announce" Boston, Miami (now referred to as just "Florida" in this announcement), Houston, Detroit, Atlanta, etc., and nothing happens.
IrishAyes From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 1731 posts, RR: 5 Reply 9, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 7448 times:
Quoting LAXdude1023 (Reply 4): I hope to see TK at IAH, but that article sounded like anything but an announcement. TK has a habit of saying "We plan ______" and then doing nothing.
Agreed. Until there is an official press release and the flights are loaded into GDS, then there is nothing.
boeingfever777 From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 409 posts, RR: 57 Reply 12, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 6912 times:
They did have a few leased from 9W but they went back and were leased to TH and will be in their fleet til early 2013 until TH starts receiving some of their own (14) they ordered from Boeing direct.
I thought TK announced this back in Feb 2011 shortly before they started service to LAX. Also they stated they would start service to DTW, BOS, & MIA.
96texan From United States of America, joined Feb 2012, 15 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 6856 times:
Looks like its a done deal according to this article that I found on Houston Bush Airport's Twitter feed. TK looks to start service by the end of 2012.
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31117 posts, RR: 74 Reply 14, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 6817 times:
Quoting 96texan (Reply 13): Looks like its a done deal according to this article that I found on Houston Bush Airport's Twitter feed. TK looks to start service by the end of 2012.
In no way, shape or form does that suggest its a done deal.
crj200faguy From United States of America, joined May 2007, 383 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 6799 times:
I'm still waiting for them to come to ATL. I've been sitting in the E concourse for months now. Where are they?
MaverickM11 From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 15727 posts, RR: 47 Reply 16, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 6717 times:
Quoting MAH4546 (Reply 8): Miami (now referred to as just "Florida"
behramjee From Canada, joined Aug 2003, 4439 posts, RR: 43 Reply 20, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 6099 times:
many of you said the same of TK when they had announced intentions of flying into Mogadishu, Somalia and wola within a couple of months of the TK CEO and Turkish PM's visit to the war torn nation, flights were launched via KRT.
From IAH, TK's main target market which it will get a big chunk of are the oil markets of Central Asia and Middle East which it has a dominant presence in. With their membership in STAR and IAH being a mega Star hub as well, the potential for them is huge in also attracting transfer traffic bound to Africa via IST. I would forecast a B77W being used on this new route in order to grab as many high yielding J class passengers as possible.
IndianicWorld From Australia, joined Jun 2001, 2403 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 6084 times:
Quoting behramjee (Reply 20): many of you said the same of TK when they had announced intentions of flying into Mogadishu, Somalia and wola within a couple of months of the TK CEO and Turkish PM's visit to the war torn nation, flights were launched via KRT.
Thats one example from numerous other announcements made which did not have the same positive outcome.
Quoting behramjee (Reply 20): From IAH, TK's main target market which it will get a big chunk of are the oil markets of Central Asia and Middle East which it has a dominant presence in. With their membership in STAR and IAH being a mega Star hub as well, the potential for them is huge in also attracting transfer traffic bound to Africa via IST. I would forecast a B77W being used on this new route in order to grab as many high yielding J class passengers as possible.
Theres already airlines targeting that market, so they would not be alone.
Northstar80 From United States of America, joined Nov 2009, 157 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 5914 times:
Guys, the discussion regarding TK's previous launch of BOS, IAH, MIA, etc. is useless - look at all the links you posted, they say TK PLANS TO fly to.... in 2012 or 2013.
So they are not official launch announcements, they are just plans with no commitment. Read carefully before you make judgements.
Now, as for the IAH thing, it looks more serious than the others with a very close date of end of 2012 given as a possible start date. That looks promising.
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. -Thomas J Watson
CHRISBA777ER From UK - England, joined Mar 2001, 5964 posts, RR: 63 Reply 24, posted (1 year 1 month 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 5849 times:
This looks like an A343 route given how tight they are for 77W capacity, surely?
What do you mean you dont have any bourbon? Do you know how far it is to Houston? What kind of airline is this???
25 United787: Houstonians can cry all they want about the HQ moving to Chi-town, but the fact of the matter is IAH is still the largest (or second largest (see oth
26 MAV88: What's up with these "announcements" as of late getting everyone on here thinking the flights are a done deal? Until I see actual confirmation from th
27 TWA772LR: YES YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES!!! I've been waiting to hear this forever now!
28 FlyingSicilian: IIRC they had a small trade office at the Turkish Consulate General in Houston which was then expanded into this seperate facility. I'd have to doubl
29 LAXdude1023: Wait for a schedule before you get excited. Knowing TK has a bad habit of "announcing" destinations and then doing nothing, I wouldnt get excited yet
30 lightsaber: Interesting announcement. Its also interesting reading about TK's history of PR. IMHO, the window for IAH was closed after QR entered the market. Whil
31 MAH4546: What strategy change? And neither QR nor TK have announced Boston.
32 leftyboarder: Hey guys, I think there is a confusion going on about TK announcements and news stories. TK management likes to talk openly about future route intenti
33 BOStonsox: Very little if any. For JL, BOS was the obvious choice, and it helped that the largest carrier here is an unaligned carrier looking for interline or
34 boilerla: I was pretty surprised that UA announced the IST route out of EWR. IAH always made more sense to me given the oil connection, and the fact that TK al
35 LAXintl: Surprised? How many destinations in Europe does UA serve from IAH? Mere 4 - AMS, CDG, FRA and LHR. And how many from EWR? - over 20, and most have NY
36 A330NZ: Remember that TK has an extensive route network to destinations throughout the middle east
37 IAHWorldFlyer: This route would do well by picking up traffic bound for Central Asia that now goes on LH. Places like Azerbijan. Companies such as Halliburton, Schlu
38 lightsaber: Thank you. I wondered if they could generate 10% or 20% of the seats, which would be enough to justify the service. But if its less.. B6 is being mor
39 leftyboarder: So, now we can start talking WHEN rather than IF for this flight, as TK has posted this on its website as a disclosure to stock markets. Source in Tur
40 MAH4546: TK has published the same exact disclosure for Buenos Aires and Atlanta, among others.
41 mogandoCI: I'm so glad CO didn't end up at SAW. IST is already not *that* close to city center, especially in traffic. Going to SAW felt a lot like going out to
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