Re: Traffic figures in Spanish islands down in peak summer season

Hasn‘t there been a lot of complaining from citizens about how there were too many tourists these last years? In the end the complete „Airbnb-zation“ of city centres isn‘t a pretty thing and Spain, unless something unexpectedly dramatic were to happen, will remain a top tourism destination.

Re: Turkish Aviation May 2019

Hi, just saw KK operating AYT-SSH on FR24 and see that 8Q offers flights between the two cities as well. What kind of traffic does this serve? For all I know neither KK nor 8Q have a big hub operation at AYT and I‘d be surprised to learn that citizens of Antalya like to go there on beach holiday let...

Re: First Turkish Airlines 787-9 rolls out of final assembly

:bouncy: I've been waiting for this for the last 13 years And I for the last ten years. In 2009 I had a project in Mus and when spending one evening in Tatvan I was very surprised to see a poster of a TK 787 in a mall, even though they had not yet ordered the 787 at that time. ... and now it’s real...

Re: Istanbul new airport - latest pictures and discussion thread

Thank you TK787 for your insights!

On another note, finally ground traffic is available on FR24!

Re: Istanbul new airport - latest pictures and discussion thread

Solidus, any statistics? There will be teething issues, but is it more (e.g., layout not as efficient as planned?) Lightsaber Yes, you can find here Departures List https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/ist/departures You can notice bars in Green / Yellow / Red depending if flight was dispatc...

Re: Istanbul new airport - latest pictures and discussion thread

Did anyone notice the consistent 1-hour delays affecting most departing flights from the new airport ? This is according to FR24, unless the lack of proper coverage at the new airport is erroneously suggesting flight delays ? Could the long taxiing times and teething problems be causing these delay...

Re: Turkish Aviation April 2019

According to the article linked below (Turkish only) the first plane was supposed to land at the Çukurova Regional Airport last month. I couldn't find anything about whether this happened or not. It's in general very difficult to find any (worthwile) info about the airport despite the construction b...

Re: Istanbul new airport - latest pictures and discussion thread

Does anyone know if there will be a documentary about the move by National Geographic? They were in talks with TK about this some time ago but no idea if it‘s materialized. This is the most recent article I was able to find. https://www.dailysabah.com/istanbul/2018/08/30/national-geographic-plans-do...

Re: CX to IST

United857 wrote:

Strictly speaking the chances for any new flights to IST would be 0, since IST closed today and all operations have been transferred to the new airport ISL. Sorry couldn't resist

Re: A Hubbed LCC?

All the „SAW is in Europe!“, „No it‘s not!“ aside, PC has a vast European network for connections to the ME and Central Asia, located right next to Europe (geographically speakimg). Turks could (and some are) converse all day about where Turkey belongs to, but that‘s not the point here. PC might be ...

Re: Turkish Aviation March 2019

A321Lufthansa wrote:

TK finally got its first B737 MAX 9. What is the configuration - C16Y135 or C16Y153?

Re: No ME3/Turkish in Vancouver?

TK has been wanting to start the route for quite sometime but they lack the bilateralas. You can search the Turkish Aviation threads of the past few months for Vancouver / YVR, there are some users with a lot of insight on the matter.

Re: XQ (SunExpress) 738's operating for LH

Are you sure the route will not rather be operated by XG (Sunexpress Deutschland)? I guess they will try to offer the same or a similar soft product as on any lufthansa flight. When it comes to hard product it‘s your typical LCC Y189 configured B738. Some of XQ‘s 738s are equipped with overhead scr...

Re: XQ (SunExpress) 738's operating for LH

Are you sure the route will not rather be operated by XG (Sunexpress Deutschland)? I guess they will try to offer the same or a similar soft product as on any lufthansa flight. When it comes to hard product it‘s your typical LCC Y189 configured B738. Some of XQ‘s 738s are equipped with overhead scr...

Re: XQ (SunExpress) 738's operating for LH

Are you sure the route will not rather be operated by XG (Sunexpress Deutschland)? I guess they will try to offer the same or a similar soft product as on any lufthansa flight. When it comes to hard product it‘s your typical LCC Y189 configured B738. Some of XQ‘s 738s are equipped with overhead scre...

Re: Turkish Aviation February 2019

TK can easily avoid that kind of bad PR by simply stopping doing it (IF it‘s even true).

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Re: Turkish Aviation February 2019

AFAIK the big European LCC's, namely Ryanair and Easyjet, serve "only" the beach destinations in Turkey. In fact, FR flies only DLM-DUB/BTS, BJV-DUB whereas U2 has significantly more routes on the map, but all limited to ADB/BJV/DLM/AYT to UK. One would hope for such a horizontal agreemen...

Re: Germania in trouble

A shame to see them go, hope they make it. Apart from resorty/beachy destinations they‘ve been operating some interesting routes out of ZRH like ZRH-BEY and ZRH-ESB. It‘s also worh noting that they‘ve been doing some aggressive marketing lately in Switzerland. I‘ve seen quite a few billboards by the...

Re: Why does El Al not serve AMM or IST, but TK and RJ serve TLV?

Here‘s an article as to why they suspended flights to Turkey in 2004. Don‘t know if they ever flew to Turkey again afterwards. They also used to have flights to AYT at some point: https://www.haaretz.com/1.4723643 With the turkish carriers offering 10+ daily rotations to/from IST/SAW any O&D tra...

Re: Turkish Aviation December 2018

blacksoviet wrote:

When will the 748s enter the fleet of Turkish Airlines?

Re: Have you flown the alphabet?

2- 2L (Helvetic Airways) 8- 8Q (Onur Air) A- AF, AZ B- BB (Balair, ex SR-subsidary; NOT Belair), BJ (Nouvelair) C- D- E- F- G- H- I- J- K- L- LH, LX M- N- O- OS P- PC Q- R- S- SQ, SU T- TK, TU U- U2 V- VY W- X- XQ (Sunexpress) Y- Z- Here‘s my (comparatively) small list. Was fun trying to remember ev...

Re: Swiss aviation thread - 2018

Sorry if this has been asked before. Was just wondering why some of LX‘s A220-100/300s have their transponders on at night (if that is (part of) why AC can be tracked on FR24 et al., not too familiar with how exactly it works). Keep seeing them on FR24 just sitting around at ZRH and GVA.

Re: Turkish Aviation December 2018

Why has A321-271NX, TC-LSB, still not been delivered? PW engine issues?

Re: Turkish order additional 777 Freighters

In addition to the 30 77Ws, they also have 3 77Ws leased from KQ. From what I gather on this forum they use these high density and low premium frames mainly on Turkey-India routes.

Re: Female Pilots in Commercial Aviation

While I have no insight in the hiring process of pilots, those are some pretty wild allegations, females being hired just for being females. Of course they come without any factual eveidence whatsoever. Are there any statistics of the share of aviation accidents and incidents being attributed to fem...

Re: Turkish Aviation November 2018

Flying ZRH-IST a lot, the loss of LX was unfortunate from a customer perspective. They had very competitive prices (most of the time lower thank TK and sometimes matching PC) and were even 2x daily on some days (I think 10 or 11 x weekly). They pulled out after the failed „coup“ as they must‘ve fear...

Re: Istanbul new airport - latest pictures and discussion thread

What is the timeline for all airlines to move over to the new airport? I looked at wikipedia, I know I know, and I only see that all TK flights will be moving on Dec 31st 2018, what about the other airlines? will they move at the same date, have some already moved, or will they move at a later date...

Re: Turkish Aviation October 2018

Have TK or any other airline ever blocked bookings for the 29th and 30th October for flights to/from IST? Seems like they potentially could‘ve lost a lot of pax over the confusion.

Re: ANA employee fired after injuring passenger

Absolutely agree with Adipocere. Also exactly whose salary will be cut by 20 % and how is this collective punishement supposed to achieve anything?

Re: Turkish Aviation September 2018

AYT : DOM : 747.701, -1.8 % ; INT : 4.091.391, +18.3 % ; TOTAL : 4.839.092, +14,7 % Is this Antalya's best month ever or still below 2014's numbers? In Aug 2014 PAX numbers were as follows: Dom: 642.124, Int: 3.864.219, total: 4.506.243. So yes, it’s the best month ever for AYT. Same goes for YTD: ...

Re: Turkish Aviation September 2018

What effect does the recent religious holiday timing have to do with variation of August traffic volume? This year the entire holiday was in August, while in 2017 it was mostly in September. https://www.sabah.com.tr/yasam/2017/07/05/kurban-bayrami-ne-zaman-kutlanacak-2017-kurban-bayrami-tarihi-hang...

Re: Turkish Aviation September 2018

Here are the AUG 17/18 YoY numbers of the 10 busiest airoports in Turkey. Hope this is somewhat readable :P. The currency crisis is definitely starting to show its impact in the domestic numbers (other than in the favourite sun destinations of the Istanbul elite). ___________________________________...

Re: TK to become casualty of USA-Turkey rhetoric?

TK has shown to be extremely resilient in times of crisis. They parked / leased out 10 % of their fleet during W 16/17 to cut costs and it payed off. Also passenger numbers to turkish carriers and tourist numbers to Turkey are back to an all time high and a weak lira will only help this (not that th...

Re: Saudi gov graphic shows AC airliner heading for Toronto skyline

There were also tweets "supporting" Quebec's independence... But they used the wrong flag - morons! I don't believe the Parti-Quebecois (the separatist party in Quebec) are really trilled to have those new supporters. :wideeyed: Hmmm.... Does this mean that Saudia will soon start fliying ...

Re: Swiss aviation thread - 2018

Anyone knows what's going on with LX18 ZRH-EWR? Heard it circling over my friend's house a little earlier and was checking Flightradar to check what aircraft was still taking off since it's rather late. It's been circling for over 3 hours now. Possibly a medical emergency, I guess?

Re: Geneva airport closed

TC957 wrote:

Wow - must be bad if even a Swiss airport can't cope.

Re: Arabian aviation thread - 2018

Lots of EK and EY planes planes over western Iraq going instead of eastern Iran right now (yet not totally avoiding Iran). Any reason? Has there bern any sudden dramatic downfall in the already strained relations or is overflying Iraq just considered to be much safer now (as it's obviously the short...

Re: Turkish Aviation February 2018

IST is incredibly congested right now.. new airport really can't open fast enough. Flew ZRH-IST and IST-ADA last week on A321 and B738 respectively. The A321 was one of the older A321s (TC-JMN, ex Kingfisher) that got retro-fitted with real business class seats and IFE. The 738 was TC-JHB with a CY1...

Re: How likely is one to get SSSS flying through IST?

Such a pathetic system... but anyway, I doubt that TK would be such a popular choice for US-Israel travel in particular if it were to automatically trigger SSSS. Any idea why it was triggered when you flew through LGW? What if you've been to airports like BEY or THR?

Re: Turkish Aviation November 2017

If they are keeping the IATA code IST and moving it from Yesilkoy to new Airport, why not do the honorable thing and keep the Ataturk name as well. We know there won't be an airport at yesilkoy (the government confirmed this) so there won't be any confusion. Welcome to Istanbul Ataturk Airport vs W...