Re: Turkish Aviation - 2024

New AJet is not a member of M&S program and you can no more collect miles on AJet flights.

Re: Turkish Aviation - 2024

https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/ekonomi/thynin-yeni-markasi-ajet-ilk-tanitim-ucusunu-ankaradan-istanbula-yapti/3178258 AJet conducted an introductory flight from ESB to SAW. The "dignitaries" placed specific emphasis on the importance of Ankara for AJet, seems that the company will be expanding ...

Re: Turkish Aviation - 2024

Today I was on TC-JSR, for TK332 IST-GYD flight. It is 9 years old 321ceo and we had good internet connectivity during flight. However I always prefer TK 321neo fleet. They have an excellent hard product.

Re: Turkish Aviation - February 2024

I'm also no more TK Elite Plus. I could not use any benefit of being EP: all the promised free upgrades or free tickets using reasonable levels of collected miles. Only benefit is having some extra luggage which I hardly used. As I travel mostly on Business, it does not worth to loose your freedom t...

Re: Turkish Aviation - January 2024

Congratulations to AJet.

Hopefully IATA code VF among the passengers eyes translate in to Very Fine, rather than WtF.

Re: Turkish Aviation - January 2024

It is crazy that within 4 years only, we are reaching limits of a brand new mega airport. I think rest of the project (ie all remaining runways and the twin terminal) needs a go ASAP. Take the brave steps without loosing time.

Re: Turkish Aviation - December 2023

If I'm not mistaken, it was mentioned during the ceremony that SAW 2nd runway would be only used for take offs. So I conclude that ILS for 2nd runway still has some problems.

Re: Turkish Aviation - December 2023

As far as I see, no strategic planning about growing in India and China. This is a serious mistake.

Re: Turkish Aviation - November 2023

dhdaviation wrote:

The thing is, for now, the aircraft will sit for 20 hrs at Singapore, which could mean TK might launch a connection from Singapore, as sitting an A350 in Singapore for almost a day isn't worth it.

Re: Turkish Aviation - November 2023

According to Hava Haber and various Turkish press sources a new Turkish airline is being established that will be headquartered in Ankara and will operate from Ankara Esenboğa Airport with 5 aircrafts initially to 12 destinations in Europe and 24 destinations in Türkiye. They rented the office in Ç...

Re: Turkish Aviation - November 2023

Wow, impressively quick. I think these kind of operational muscles and efficiency matters big big time in commercial aviation. Looking back to the past 15 years of impressive growth of TK, their persistence on business fundamentals and Unit Economics is paying off big time. This is what enables the...

Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2023

EUROPEAN AIRPORTS - AUGUST 2023: IST surpassing LHR in passenger numbers in August 2023. https://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/sites/default/files/website_633x300/slider-overig/top10-aug23caci-europe-1200.png Source ACI AYT being at 6th spot, just under FRA, is actually more interesting.

Re: Turkish Aviation August 2023

Turkish Airlines not interested in 777X freighters https://centreforaviation.com/news/turkish-airlines-not-interested-in-777x-freighters-1218896 Could we see 350 freighters in the future ? I consider this as an early indication that TK evaluates B777X too big as a passenger aircraft likewise A380. ...

Re: Turkish Aviation August 2023

Hi everyone. I’ll be flying to India soon with a ticket issued by TK, but the connecting flight from IST to India will be operated by IndiGo. Does anybody know if I’ll be able to online check in and get a boarding pass through TK’s website for the IndiGo flight or will I be only able to do so at th...

Re: Turkish Aviation July 2023

TK has different customer profile than others. Their business class pax mostly flying for family leisure travel with comfort not individuals flying solely for business purposes. First group likes old product, can see their family members, talk each other, take care children, holding hands (true, no...

Re: Turkish Aviation June 2023

Long awaited. Congratulations to TK and Turkish Aviation.

Re: Turkish Aviation June 2023

However both UK and France have good railway networks and distances are relatively short.

Re: Turkish Aviation May 2023

Seems like TK has downgraded the amount of earned miles through your M&S credit card with each purchase. I just bought a domestic ticket for around 960TL, and I only got 321 miles. First it was 1TL = 1 mile. Then they changed it 1 mile for every 2TL, and now it’s 1 mile for every 3TL. They keep...

Re: Turkish Aviation May 2023

Business Lounge and M&S Lounge being twin lounges is also wrong. Business Lounge has to be more superior. Perhaps TK can allow M&S ELPL to use Business Lounge in that case (not Star Alliance Gold) to make a difference.

Re: Turkish Aviation April 2023

LH admitted TK into *A hoping that they could manipulate TK and use it as a regional airline that constantly feeds them revenue/transit passengers and LH uses TK to operate in the niche markets in third world where they are reluctant to operate their own metal. However, TK grew into a bigger airlin...

Re: Turkish Aviation April 2023

I trust that TK can start its own JV and alliance. It is time to say goodby to Star Alliance. Even if not now, this can happen somewhere in 2020s.

Re: Turkish Aviation April 2023

What I didn't get is why this rush of 10ys to double the company? Why not a healthy growth step by step? This planned growth have also big risks and needs very good planning, also is IST ready for that? I believe this is a politically motivated rushed announcement due to upcoming elections. Perhaps...

Re: Turkish Aviation March 2023

When I look at 400th Aircraft Livery, I see a solution with the Lowest cost. No style, no creavity, no nothing. Most probably no budget was allocated, no designers were hired, application costing had to be close to zero and this is the result. But in case a bulky bugdet was allocated, …. Anything is...

Re: Turkish Aviation March 2023

Today I was on TK7756 ESB-GYD, which was 101% full. A friend of mine, who flew ESB-GYD few days back, said that his experience is also the same. He also said that during check in, ground stuff asked them to check in also hand luggage as much as possible as the plane was over crowded. Looks like, TK ...

Re: Turkish Aviation February 2023

524Y !?!?!

What the hell?

Re: Turkish Aviation January 2023

Miles&Smiles has already become a joke. No benefits at all, only burdens. As an EP, probably I'll no more try to keep my loyalty in M&S. I decided to burn my 100K miles as of 2022 end. I'll no more push for collecting miles, since you can not use them anyway.

Re: Second tier advanced fighter projects news and discussion

Latest about MMU https://i2.milimaj.com/i/milliyet/75/869x477/63b9e4a186b2445d04601551.jpg Engine power up within days. Roll out within weeks. First flight within 2023. By the way, could you kindly change topic name as "Other advanced fighter projects news and discussion" as MMU is certain...

Re: Turkish Aviation Thread - December 2022

Lets do the math together for ESB tender: 3€ per domestic passenger fee 17€+3€ per international passenger fee For 2022 we can expect 2M intl and 6M dom passenger (however I expect these figures to reach 4+12M in a few years) So in 25 years keeping 2022 passanger numbers, total income shall be aroun...

Re: Turkish Aviation November 2022

Thanks to TK787 and LAXintl for keeping this thread alive. Though Turkey is going through a turbulent economical situation, it is great that TK is having another record year for growth and exceptional economical performance. I hope this will also contribute to Turkey's economical situation. Last mon...

Re: Turkish Aviation October 2022

I've shared my views about ESB multiple times here in the past, but let me make a short summary: - Position of Ankara Airport (ESB) is extremely wrong. I've investigated location selection of ESB and could not find any thing. As the airport was first built by an USA contractor, I assume that locatio...

Re: Turkish Aviation October 2022

I don't say that everyone should break out in panic during an evac, but standing there almost within the range of the jet foam and watching what the firebrigade is doing is beyond nuts TK has a "one of a kind" passenger profile. I never forget the story of neutralization of the hijacker o...

Re: Turkish Aviation October 2022

Wizzair Abu Dhabi is launching 3x weekly flights to AUH: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221005-5wjan23esb I was in Abu Dhabi the day before. Expats are very happy about this flight. Everybody is fed up by high prices of TK and EY. Now people plan more frequent trips to Turkey. By the way, rumors ab...

Re: Turkish Aviation October 2022

QR upgrades DOH ESB to A330 widebody on certain days of the week now, looks like they are catching up to pre-pandemic levels I missed that up gauge by 1 day. Remember that Turkey has a military base in Qatar. This generates a regular traffic. In addition Turkish Police will provide the security dur...

Re: Turkish Aviation October 2022

Certainly TK business class is expensive lately. I’m on QR1018 right now on DOH-DXB leg of my trip. I’ve got a better price for QR First class than TK business class for ESB-DXB. Is QR First better than TK business? My answer is “it is not”. At least for the segments I’m flying today.

Re: Turkish Aviation September 2022

Good to see all these direct services increase to ESB. This is surely not enough but a good start.

By the way, next week I’ll be flying ESB-DOH-DXB-ESB on QR and FZ. On the way back, I’ll try FZ Business class for the first time and provide a short trip report.

Re: Turkish Aviation August 2022

TK announced very good results for the first half of the year:

7.59B$ revenue
1.45B$ gross profit
737M$ net profit

Tomorrow it will be fun at BIST.

Some Speculators believe that year end results may even be better than double of these figures.

Re: Second tier advanced fighter projects news and discussion

TUSAS CEO (ex TK CEO) Mr. Kotil gave an interview during Farnborough Airshow. MMU (TFX) was also discussed during this interview: - Total 14 prototypes will be manufactured by 2028 - 12 of them will have F110 - 2 of them will have local indigenous engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EenGD6X1nRM (...

Re: Second tier advanced fighter projects news and discussion

It depends on how much they want to be dependent on US export restrictions. I suspect that they will still try to get an engine free of US restrictions at some point. I think you are missing the main point here. F110 is a very good engine with excelent track report. Turkey is capable of manufacturi...

Re: Second tier advanced fighter projects news and discussion

art wrote:

You may know more than me but why do you think Turkiye is capable of developing an indigenous engine in time to use it for TF-X?

Re: Second tier advanced fighter projects news and discussion

Turkey invites proposals for an engine for TF-X It is discussed widely in the Turkish Industry about how to solve engine issue for the MMU (TFX) project. In general, industrial is well aware that only limited foreign help may come from UK (RR) and/or Ukraine (Motor Sich) for the development of an i...

Re: Turkish Aviation July 2022

The whole Turks in Mexico discussion is overblown. Per US CBP statistics through September 2021, 1,972 Turks were arrested at the U.S. - Mexico border. Woooow very interesting statistics (thanks LAXintl): 6.5M overall arrested. 3.6M Mexican : : 1,972 Turkish : 370 Israeli : 210 Iranian (very intere...

Re: Turkish Aviation June 2022

TKflyer wrote:

Corendon Airlines next MAX will be
TC–MKD Boeing 737–8 MAX msn/ln 65186/8304 lsd ALC

Re: Turkish Aviation June 2022

Looks like there is a step back. So instead of “Türkiye Hava Yolları”, they will use original Turkish name “Türk Hava Yolları”. International name “Turkish Airlines” is no more going to be used (at least on the planes I suppose). But I also think that it is not going to happen either and current sta...

Re: Turkish Aviation June 2022

LAXintl wrote:

Since Turkey is no longer the English name of the country

Re: Turkish Aviation June 2022

OTTOMANAIR wrote:

Turkish Airlines is going to be renamed to Türkiye Hava Yollari… bruh…

Re: Turkish Aviation June 2022

- and last but not least an observation of my own: they seem to have taken out many scheduled rotations on domestic routes; I've seen this to TZX, ADB and VAN. Indeed, before pandemy, there used to be flights between ESB-ADB in the late morning, noon, afternoon and early evening. They are all gone ...

Re: Turkish Aviation May 2022

I'm back to IST from DXB and writing you while waiting my ESB connection. Wooww. What an experience A380 is. On the way to DXB I kept my noise canceling Bose earphones all the time as if I'm on a B777. This time on the way back I did not do that: What a difference! I can explain you the sound differ...

Re: Turkish Aviation May 2022

Blerg wrote:

Thank you for the pictures. How was the load on the EK A380?

Re: Turkish Aviation May 2022

Greetings from DXB. After a 28 months pandemic break, I'm happy to be back in Dubai. As FZ now flies directly between ESB and DXB with a great J product where you can have a single row seating on a B738max, I had a hard time choosing EK via IST for the sake of trying A380. Though I probably will not...

Re: Turkish Aviation April 2022

I think Russians, Iranians, Iraqis, etc etc you name it, all the alienated decent people on earth are more than welcome to Turkey as long as they come here as tourist, respect our rules and respect others while enjoying Turkey, and return back to their countries after their holidays. Let Turkey be t...