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Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:08 am
by factsonly
Senti69 wrote:OTTOMANAIR wrote:A330Inter wrote:
Netherlands to IST market is very large, KLM only operated once a week last year but was codesharing on Atlasglobal and Pegasus.
Atlasglobal used to send their A330 from times to times, must have been due to the demand!
Probably a good market for double daily post-Covid for KLM!
I assume KLM operated a daily flight to IST when KK was still around. Because KLM didn’t down gauge to a weekly flight to IST. KK was operating twice daily flights to Amsterdam during high season. But it surprises me that KL is operating two daily flights on those particular days during these hard covid days.
Loads are over 95%
Remember IST-AMS is not just about the Turkish-Netherlands market.
In these COVID times AMS has become the busiest airport in Europe in number of flights, because SKYTEAM partners are able to maintain a significant hub operation at AMS.
The cancellation of flights at many other hubs, forces the remaining traffic over the few European airports that maintain a 'connecting' network.
https://www.eurocontrol.int/publication ... ember-2020
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:05 pm
by fil87
Emirates to resume regular business class service as of 15.10
https://onemileatatime.com/emirates-bri ... r-showers/Will this be some kind of incentive for TK to finally resume a decent service level?
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:28 pm
by TK787
Top 10 European airports by pax numbers in August '20, according to EATS database:
-DME
-SVO
-CDG
-IST
-AMS
-SAW
-AYT
-LED
-FRA
-VKO
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:25 pm
by mafaky
LAXintl wrote:TK does not need some grand announcement about fleet retirements as many are scheduled to leave anyhow as leases roll-off.
This year alone, leases on 28 aircraft were due to terminate, with more in the coming years...
Are you referring to "operational leases" (being leased from another airline or from some leasing company, for a period of say 2 to 8 years, or so) or "financial leases" (where eventually after 10-12 years or so lease period expires, the leased plane(s) may become airlines' own property) or maybe both?
TK doesn't have too many of the first kind in their fleet, but has a biiig inventory based on the second...
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:18 pm
by A321Lufthansa
mafaky wrote:LAXintl wrote:TK does not need some grand announcement about fleet retirements as many are scheduled to leave anyhow as leases roll-off.
This year alone, leases on 28 aircraft were due to terminate, with more in the coming years...
Are you referring to "operational leases" (being leased from another airline or from some leasing company, for a period of say 2 to 8 years, or so) or "financial leases" (where eventually after 10-12 years or so lease period expires, the leased plane(s) may become airlines' own property) or maybe both?
TK doesn't have too many of the first kind in their fleet, but has a biiig inventory based on the second...
But are the oldest 738s, 321s and 320s (TC-JP*) leased? Weren't they taken into complete possession after having turned 12 years?
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 5:50 pm
by Mystic
Flew AMS-SAW pn PC last week and back yesterday and got on the A321. The flight was full on both legs. SAW was also very crowded, the #300 gates to europe, had no room to walk.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:19 pm
by mafaky
A321Lufthansa wrote:But are the oldest 738s, 321s and 320s (TC-JP*) leased? Weren't they taken into complete possession after having turned 12 years?
I will try to set up a list in a few days' time!
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:18 pm
by marcogr12
Mystic wrote:Flew AMS-SAW pn PC last week and back yesterday and got on the A321. The flight was full on both legs. SAW was also very crowded, the #300 gates to europe, had no room to walk.
Arent there quarantine restrictions when entering the Netherlands from Turkey?
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:52 am
by OTTOMANAIR
marcogr12 wrote:Mystic wrote:Flew AMS-SAW pn PC last week and back yesterday and got on the A321. The flight was full on both legs. SAW was also very crowded, the #300 gates to europe, had no room to walk.
Arent there quarantine restrictions when entering the Netherlands from Turkey?
You “have to” stay home for 10 days when you come back from Turkey. But to be honest, out of my own experience and observations, no one does this. Not only for Turkey, but for people who come from countries that are marked as orange.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:05 pm
by mercure1
Air France formally retired its A340 fleet this week after 22 years of service.
Interesting that the retirement flight F-GLZK and bearing the colors of Joon, operated one way retirement flight October 12, 2020 to Istanbul.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFR ... /LFPG/LTBAI wonder who will pick up this airframe, as I suppose the one-way journey to Turkey was planned to coincide with new owners maintenance overhaul needs.
Maybe Turkish spotters can keep an eye on this aircraft in the coming weeks.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:40 pm
by TK787
And then they were fifteen
15th TK 787 to join the fleet shortly
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/THY ... /KPAE/LTFM
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:29 am
by TK787
TK787 wrote:
Looks like never took off, maybe a last minute glitch
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:06 pm
by TK787
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 12:24 am
by B747forever
Anyone knows how Turkish loads are like to the US? In particular their LAX route. Flying on TK10 this coming Thursday, any way to know what the load will be?
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 12:50 pm
by TK787
B747forever wrote:Anyone knows how Turkish loads are like to the US? In particular their LAX route. Flying on TK10 this coming Thursday, any way to know what the load will be?
Maybe someone with a expertflier.com account?? Let us know about your flight. Bon Voyage
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 4:41 pm
by LAXintl
B747forever wrote:Anyone knows how Turkish loads are like to the US? In particular their LAX route. Flying on TK10 this coming Thursday, any way to know what the load will be?
About 100 at the moment. Though the flights tend to book very late and also accommodate other airline cancellations at the last moment so could easily get many more passengers prior to departure. For example, tomorrow's flight is over 80% booked.
Enjoy the trip.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:18 am
by mafaky
TK787 wrote:TK787 wrote:
Looks like never took off, maybe a last minute glitch
I'm sure that you are following it very closely, but what about that cancelled (postponed) ferry flight of the 15th Dreamliner TC-LLP. What may be that last minute glitch that still keeps this bird on ground since the last 48 hrs.?
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 8:04 am
by TK787
Not sure. TC-LLP has been photographed flying since the beginning of July. One source shows it as "Delivered on Oct 15th", others still say "Due". It is no longer on the 787 Production/Delivery/Stored list. ???
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:48 am
by mafaky
TK787 wrote:Not sure. TC-LLP has been photographed flying since the beginning of July. One source shows it as "Delivered on Oct 15th", others still say "Due". It is no longer on the 787 Production/Delivery/Stored list. ???
Well, I'm not living in ISTAirport. But, AFAIK, it didn't land at IST at the first scheduled date/time you recognized. A tleast, one of the local sites would have mentioned its arrival (particularly bcz. it's the 15th bird to join the fleet...). Neither FR24 nor Flightaware show any recent flights by TC-LLP. That probably is enough evidence that it's still in US soil.
Strange???
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:09 am
by MoonC
mafaky wrote:TK787 wrote:Not sure. TC-LLP has been photographed flying since the beginning of July. One source shows it as "Delivered on Oct 15th", others still say "Due". It is no longer on the 787 Production/Delivery/Stored list. ???
Well, I'm not living in ISTAirport. But, AFAIK, it didn't land at IST at the first scheduled date/time you recognized. A tleast, one of the local sites would have mentioned its arrival (particularly bcz. it's the 15th bird to join the fleet...). Neither FR24 nor Flightaware show any recent flights by TC-LLP. That probably is enough evidence that it's still in US soil.
Strange???
The most recent flight was a test PAE - PAE on the 9th of the month. Did not move since.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 11:47 am
by B747forever
Thank you TK787 and LAXintl. Will report back on the flight!
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:25 pm
by MoonC
TK is planning to introduce its new A350s on IST - AYT starting November 1st, flight TK2424/5.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:31 pm
by LAXintl
Sounds like some real monkey business going on at former Borajet.
14 Borajet executives were under investigation for money laundering and connected to a larger decade-long US$1Bil fraud scheme in the U.S !
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news ... lines-caseAs we discussed here in past years, many had doubts about Borajet and their business activities. Seems we might now know where the money came to prop up the loss-making venture.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:02 pm
by TK787
MoonC wrote:TK is planning to introduce its new A350s on IST - AYT starting November 1st, flight TK2424/5.
Great news,
Next is the MAX re-entry to service. AA is starting to fly them in the US by end of the year, let's see how TK follow.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:00 pm
by mafaky
TK787 wrote:Next is the MAX re-entry to service. AA is starting to fly them in the US by end of the year, let's see how TK follow.
That much more depends on EASA's giving the full greenlight, regarding European operations...
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:22 pm
by OTTOMANAIR
Did TK introduce their former business class on board service back? Or are the meals and services still a disaster? If it’s not the same as usual, I don’t want to upgrade for my flight tomorrow.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 9:58 pm
by B747forever
Does IST still offer COVID19 PCR testing? Is it safe to do the testing on the day of departure if traveling on an airline that requires a negative PCR test?
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:45 pm
by TK787
Well, 15th TK 787 is still sitting at KPAE, middle of frame:
http://www.paineairport.com/images/fl20201016.jpg
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:50 pm
by TK787
B747forever wrote:Does IST still offer COVID19 PCR testing? Is it safe to do the testing on the day of departure if traveling on an airline that requires a negative PCR test?
Just talked to my friend who travelled to IST from the US and returned recently. According to him, non citizens could get a test paying a high fee but he was told if no symptoms no test. So AFAIK, no requirement to get tested at IST. He had to search really hard to get tested on his way back to the US, in Bodrum.
Please let us know how it goes. Bon Voyage.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 12:25 am
by marcogr12
Thats a tricky one...no symptom does not mean necessarily that you dont have the virus..Quite the contrary, which is why it s such a pain in the tooshie and gets so easily transmitted...Dont they have country-list in Turkey for arriving pax, determining which ones should be tested depending on the country/city of arrival (high-risk areas)?
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 2:20 am
by TK787
marcogr12 wrote:Thats a tricky one...no symptom does not mean necessarily that you dont have the virus..Quite the contrary, which is why it s such a pain in the tooshie and gets so easily transmitted...Dont they have country-list in Turkey for arriving pax, determining which ones should be tested depending on the country/city of arrival (high-risk areas)?
AFAIK, Turkey is one of handful of countries in the world, that does not have any restrictions on arriving pax. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Some info here:
https://tr.usembassy.gov/covid-19-information-2/
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 2:57 am
by RollerRB211
OTTOMANAIR wrote:Did TK introduce their former business class on board service back? Or are the meals and services still a disaster? If it’s not the same as usual, I don’t want to upgrade for my flight tomorrow.
As of 2 weeks ago, it's still an unmitigated disaster. What's worse, the staff can't be bothered to even check on their passengers so if you want a second drink you have to go to the galley. I wish this airline the worst.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:38 pm
by TK787
TK just updated its November schedule and here are few highlights:
-IAH 3 to 4 weekly
-JFK 8 to 10 weekly TK3/TK4 operated by 787-9 and....
LHR 17 to 14W, Kiev 12 to 14W, Odessa 12 to 14W, MUC 12 to 14W, CDG 18 to 21W, HKG 4 to 5W, VIE 7 to 9W, LED 7 to 14W, ATH 4 to 7W, Tehran 9 to 14W, AMS 10 to 14W.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 5:12 am
by Blerg
Is TK still not serving anything on flights shorter than two hours?
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:16 am
by OTTOMANAIR
TK787 wrote:TK just updated its November schedule and here are few highlights:
-IAH 3 to 4 weekly
-JFK 8 to 10 weekly TK3/TK4 operated by 787-9 and....
LHR 17 to 14W, Kiev 12 to 14W, Odessa 12 to 14W, MUC 12 to 14W, CDG 18 to 21W, HKG 4 to 5W, VIE 7 to 9W, LED 7 to 14W, ATH 4 to 7W, Tehran 9 to 14W, AMS 10 to 14W.
Is this already available on the booking system? I see onE daily flight from Istanbul to Amsterdam.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:05 am
by TK787
OTTOMANAIR wrote:
Is this already available on the booking system? I see onE daily flight from Istanbul to Amsterdam.
I just looked. For example for 17NOV, there are 2 x to IST, and 1 x to SAW on that day.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:01 am
by A321Lufthansa
By the way, why did TK stop naming its new aircrafts (especially A321neos) for a year already after receiving TC-LSH? Only TC-LSS has received its name so far...
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:38 pm
by TK787
A321Lufthansa wrote:By the way, why did TK stop naming its new aircrafts (especially A321neos) for a year already after receiving TC-LSH? Only TC-LSS has received its name so far...
This has been going on for such a long time.
Many years ago when the fleet was tiny, they had a pretty good system. I especially like how they named the A310 fleet after rivers in Turkey.
Then when more and more planes joined the fleet, they lost interest.
They have many planes with no names. They have/had multiple planes with the same name
For such a large company, they have no clear plans to name their aircraft
I would love to be that person to do this for free. Please someone let TK know that I am available for such a task
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:10 pm
by TK105
I can also be a volunteer to name planes. Unfortunately unnamed planes is a sign of loosing the company culture.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:08 pm
by MeCe
OTTOMANAIR wrote:Did TK introduce their former business class on board service back? Or are the meals and services still a disaster? If it’s not the same as usual, I don’t want to upgrade for my flight tomorrow.
They will start serving hot meals soon but no menu detail yet. It is little bit tricky, catering companies reduced capacity because of corona, I heard some locations can not provide hot meals.
Regarding to 350 routes, they will do Manila and Taipei flights for now. Of course there will be domestic orientation flights.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:28 pm
by MoonC
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 5:14 pm
by mict
Small improvement in J yesterday: the good Denon headphones were available (TK80 SFO-IST). This wasn't the case a few weeks ago.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:16 pm
by maverick4002
TK787 wrote:TK just updated its November schedule and here are few highlights:
-IAH 3 to 4 weekly
-JFK 8 to 10 weekly TK3/TK4 operated by 787-9 and....
LHR 17 to 14W, Kiev 12 to 14W, Odessa 12 to 14W, MUC 12 to 14W, CDG 18 to 21W, HKG 4 to 5W, VIE 7 to 9W, LED 7 to 14W, ATH 4 to 7W, Tehran 9 to 14W, AMS 10 to 14W.
Well this is alot of increase in frequencies. Good indicator of demand I suppose.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:07 pm
by TK787
maverick4002 wrote:Well this is alot of increase in frequencies. Good indicator of demand I suppose.
One would hope so
Besides the above changes, TK is re starting bunch of other cities in India, Argentina, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and also cities like Dubai, Krasnodar, Marrakech, Thessaloniki, Zanzibar, Ulaanbaatar in NOV.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:13 pm
by OTTOMANAIR
TK787 wrote:maverick4002 wrote:Well this is alot of increase in frequencies. Good indicator of demand I suppose.
One would hope so
Besides the above changes, TK is re starting bunch of other cities in India, Argentina, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and also cities like Dubai, Krasnodar, Marrakech, Thessaloniki, Zanzibar, Ulaanbaatar in NOV.
Is Dubai like actually confirmed? Because some aviation news sites report that the launch date of IST - DXB has been delayed constantly due to the worsened political ties between Turkey and UAE.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:28 pm
by TK787
OTTOMANAIR wrote:Is Dubai like actually confirmed? Because some aviation news sites report that the launch date of IST - DXB has been delayed constantly due to the worsened political ties between Turkey and UAE.
I just checked, no direct flights to DXB in NOV. Thanks for pointing that out.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 5:51 am
by mafaky
TK787 wrote:OTTOMANAIR wrote:Is Dubai like actually confirmed? Because some aviation news sites report that the launch date of IST - DXB has been delayed constantly due to the worsened political ties between Turkey and UAE.
I just checked, no direct flights to DXB in NOV. Thanks for pointing that out.
Can you also pls. check the availability of those Saudi services in November? The relations between Turkey and KSA have also gone pretty much sour after
the embargo for Turkish origin merchandise by the Saudis.
AFAIK, EK also has not announced any flights to Turkey. I'm not sure about Saudia.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:15 am
by OA260
mafaky wrote:TK787 wrote:OTTOMANAIR wrote:Is Dubai like actually confirmed? Because some aviation news sites report that the launch date of IST - DXB has been delayed constantly due to the worsened political ties between Turkey and UAE.
I just checked, no direct flights to DXB in NOV. Thanks for pointing that out.
Can you also pls. check the availability of those Saudi services in November? The relations between Turkey and KSA have also gone pretty much sour after
the embargo for Turkish origin merchandise by the Saudis.
AFAIK, EK also has not announced any flights to Turkey. I'm not sure about Saudia.
Seems the SV flights were loaded but then zeroed out . Shame about DXB certainly not a great time for throwing the toys out of the pram!
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:15 am
by TK787
mafaky wrote:Can you also pls. check the availability of those Saudi services in November?
For NOV IST to Riyadh, Dammam, Jeddah is available to book on TK website.
Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2020
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:53 am
by airanatolia
Wasn't the first A350 to be delivered last night? I did not catch anything on FlightRadar24, or any news?