TK787 From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 4106 posts, RR: 13 Posted (2 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 8652 times:
I guess we can say that it is official, coming from the Chairman of the Board Hamdi Topcu, from this Turkish article; http://www.airporthaber.com/havacili...topcu-2003te-pilotlar-issizdi.html
He says 7 WB aircraft are leased and joining the fleet starting May.
This is on top of an order of 20 x 77Ws (first 3 arrive in 2014), 22 x 333s + 3 options, ( first 2 x 333s arrive this year, 5 more in 2014)
We had a thread earlier that suggested the 7 could be 777s, but that thread is locked, Turkish Airlines To Lease 7x 777 (by tkfan Dec 22 2012 in Civil Aviation)
and this new information doesn't specify what type those 7 frames are.
So let the speculation begin; 332/333/77W/77L?
TK787 From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 4106 posts, RR: 13 Reply 3, posted (2 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 8488 times:
Not an order for new aircraft, since arriving in couple of months;
From the archived thread;
Post by karan69; As per some sources a 4 aircraft deal has been signed with 9W , these will be the Current aircraft which are with TG which will go to TK as their leases expire
rutankrd From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2003, 1998 posts, RR: 5 Reply 4, posted (2 months 2 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 8160 times:
Quoting TK787 (Reply 3): As per some sources a 4 aircraft deal has been signed with 9W , these will be the Current aircraft which are with TG which will go to TK as their leases expire
Back to the future then !
Good question is will they restore the first class offering as per previous 9W leases ?
TK787 From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 4106 posts, RR: 13 Reply 5, posted (2 months 2 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 8079 times:
Quoting rutankrd (Reply 4): will they restore the first class offering as per previous 9W leases ?
Great question.
I have no idea. I for one would like to blow some miles on those F suites. But for fleet commonality, it is down the drain again. I am sure this is for stop gap measure and might be wet-lease, might be as short as 18 month long.
HB-IWC From Greece, joined Sep 2000, 4414 posts, RR: 76 Reply 6, posted (2 months 2 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 7222 times:
As I also mentioned in the other thread, the 9W B77Ws are alsmost certainly involved in this deal. Five aircraft are currently on lease with TG and will gradually return as TG is in the process of receiving its own B77Ws. Some of these aircraft have already been with TK before as TC-JJA/B/C/D.
Whether TK again takes these 4 aircraft, or all 5 that are now with TK or even 7 of the 10-strong 9W B77W fleet remains to be seen, but 9W is in the process of receiving A333 aircraft and could offload up to 7 B77W aircraft and use the remaining three aircraft for its 3 daily LHR rotations. That may not cover for any down time, but then 9W has last week announced that one out of 21 weekly LHR rotations will operate with A333, so the airline may well be preparing to transfer 7 B77Ws to TK.
If these are indeed the aircraft we are talking about, I doubt that TK will reinstate the First Class after that experiment failed last time around. I feel the 8 suites will be used as J to make for a 38-seat business class cabin.
4engines4lnghll From United States of America, joined Aug 2010, 63 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (2 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 5778 times:
na From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 9613 posts, RR: 10 Reply 10, posted (2 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 5421 times:
Likely shortterm leases to cover the time until the own 77Ws arrive then. I wonder why Jet Aw isnt selling part of their 77W fleet if they dont need them.
TK787 From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 4106 posts, RR: 13 Reply 11, posted (2 months 2 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 5048 times:
Quoting HB-IWC (Reply 6): I doubt that TK will reinstate the First Class after that experiment failed last time around. I feel the 8 suites will be used as J to make for a 38-seat business class cabin.
Do you mean taking those 1 ton each F seats to make room for 38J seats for the short time TK will be leasing these aircraft?
Knowing TK, they wouldn't spend the time or the money and use them as they are on routes like JFK, LAX where TK might find F pax.
Quoting jreuschl (Reply 14): I know a 2nd flight has been rumored once in a while for ORD. Would they upgrade it to a 77W?
IST-ORD is already a daily 77W flight.
AFAIK this is the first I hear a second flight to ORD. I was under the impression that ORD flights are not that profitable compared to JFK or LAX or YYZ.
LAXintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22034 posts, RR: 51 Reply 20, posted (2 months 2 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 3593 times:
Quoting TK787 (Reply 16): IST-ORD is already a daily 77W flight.
ORD sees the A330/A340 not 777.
Only US cities with the 77W currently are JFK and LAX. ORD and IAD are A330/340 markets.
Quoting leftyboarder (Reply 18): Except UA hasn't been the most cooperative partner for TK so far. Even AC offers more codeshares via YYZ to US cities to TK.
TK also made a broad deal with JetBlue and a smaller one with Virgin America.
United is too wrapped up with its A++ JV then to release seats at discount to TK.
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HB-IWC From Greece, joined Sep 2000, 4414 posts, RR: 76 Reply 21, posted (2 months 2 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 3580 times:
Quoting TK787 (Reply 16): You mean 8 people get the Suite, 30 people get the herringbone seat and ALL this will be J. That is not fair.
8 Suites J, 30 seats will become Comfort, as shown
No way TK is going to sell only 8 J seats on a longhaul aircraft, that is simply not enough, and since I also very much doubt that a short lived reintroduction of the First Class is in order, I am sticking to my position that it will be a 38 J cabin in which 8 lucky passengers will end up in a suite.
8 seat j is not possible I guess. They will/should find a way not to introduce F class again. My vote goes removing all suites and put herringbone seats that area and have 2 class 777. This config works much better on mid haul flights too.
AAMDanny From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2008, 315 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (2 months 2 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 3089 times:
Does TK still have a A340 fleet? Would the ex-VS A346's be a good stop gap till 773ER's arrive?
25 TK787: TK has 7 x 343s. TK doesn't need the range of the 346 and when so many 332s avail, I doubt that. Then again, if the price is right, who knows.
26 behramjee: nopes...what should happen logically is that 8 pax paying a full J class level published fare will be eligible to sit in these 8 first class seats wh
27 Carfield: First, TG has been very rough with those 77Ws leased from Jet Airways. Those planes need some major fix or "cleanup" before putting in use by any airl
28 MeCe: This is best way for a short lease but I doubt surcharge will be reasonable. AFAIK this suites weighs more than 700 kg, it is not space only but also
29 Tdan: Even among the A++ partners, UA isn't the best at cooperating. They play the "we're the largest airline in the world so you should do what we want" c
30 karan69: Hi Guys, Altough the deal was as good as confirmed when i mentioned it previously, but the EY and Jet talks changed the whole situation, A couple of
31 TK787: Thanks for the update. Mmmmmmm. Not sure what this means, but if TK told the press they have 7 widebodies starting to arrive in May, maybe some other
32 sunrisevalley: How about all the deficiencies you cannot see
33 kaitak: There was mention on another site of some regulatory issues for TK regarding the ex-9W 777s; apparently neither the Americans nor the Japanese would a
34 nethkt: Why are we focusing on only B777s? How about A343s or A330s? Since EK is getting more 77Ws and 380s they will get rid of 332s and 343s, could this be
35 7BOEING7: It says "starting" in May, it doesn't say they will all show up in May. Why not new airplanes, GECAS has several 77W's on order and THY has leased 77W
36 TK787: Also, where does TK planning on using this 15% increase in WB capacity. AFAIK, only Houston is announced for April, and all 4 China destinations to go
37 MeCe: Maybe ORD get 777, or as you mentioned second daily LAX. 777s are used EU flights in summer, w/o addition new frames schedule will be very tight and
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