Air Albania inaugurated direct flights between Tirana and Ankara at the beginning of Summer season this month. It is expected the flights will be year-round. It is the first time a direct flight is being launched between the two capitals. The flights are once a week on Saturdays to start with with a...
Jump to postThe DC-10 crash was a very unfortunate incident for the global aviaiton sector as well as for Turkish civil aviation and airline business.The a/c was Turkish Airlines' first widebody air craft type, three of them were picked over L1011 due to a better offer by McDonnell Douglas. These three birds we...
Jump to postPegasus Ankara Lisbon schedules updated, direct fligths start from April 2nd as follows;
PC1741 ESB1745 – 2100LIS 320 26
PC1741 ESB1845 – 2200LIS 320 4
PC1742 LIS2200 – 0500+1ESB 320 26
PC1742 LIS2245 – 0545+1ESB 320 4
Some flight increases/changes from/to Ankara announced by Sun Express for the summer timetable as follows; Ankara – Amsterdam 10JUL24 – 04SEP24 Increase from 2 to 3 weekly Ankara – Berlin eff 22JUN24 Increase from 1 to 2 weekly Ankara – Cologne/Bonn eff 26JUN24 Increase from 1 to 2 weekly Ankara – H...
Jump to postYes it is a surprise but likewise Pegasus inaugrated Ankara Warsaw and Ankara Krakow last year too and they are ongoing successfully. ESB FCO was served in 2018 and 2019 by THY after a 60 year hiatus but was discontuned when THY left ESB international flights to AJet. ESB FCO sector was served by Pa...
Jump to postThe flight schedule by Pegasus will be as follows; ESB 18;45 LIS 22:00 (every Tuesday) ESB 17:45 LIS 21:00 (Every Thursday and Saturday) LIS 22:00 ESB 05:00 (+1) (Every Thursday and Saturday/Arrival to Ankara next day) LIS 22:45 ESB 05:45 (+1) (Every Tuesday/Arrival to Ankara next day) The flights f...
Jump to postPegasus is launching thrice weekly direct flights from Ankara to Lisbon from April 3rd. The flights will be everyTuesday, Thursday and Saturday between the two capitals.
Jump to postQuite well prepared, professional and looks promising. According to the presentation Ajet will get more clarity and identity from April 2024 that is good. Hope this will help resolve the secondary markets problems going forward. This was debated in the media a lot but I do not think TK will sell Aje...
Jump to postPegasus is launching twice weekly direct flights between Ankara Esenboga Airport and Podgorica (Montenegro) as well as Podgorica and Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport from February 4th 2024.
Jump to postAccording 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 Ça...
Jump to postYes indeed, Medina and Jeddah are already served from Ankara by AnadoluJet/TK so Flynas will add on. Good to see competition and newcomers of course. With recent bilateral agreements coming into effect ESB is becoming the third largest gateway to ME and CIS region in Türkiye after IST and SAW so tha...
Jump to postFlynas, Saudi LCC is starting flights from Ankara from November 5th. Schedules/Frequencies are as follows; Jeddah – Ankara 1 weekly A320neo XY635 JED 06:45 – 10:35 ESB 32N 2 XY636 ESB 11:25 – 15:25 JED 32N 7 Madinah – Ankara 1 weekly A320neo XY635 JED 05:15 – 06:15 MED 07:05 – 10:35 ESB 32N 7 XY636 ...
Jump to postNo surprise as London as a city hosts the largest number of Turkish people outside Türkiye since 4 years now, passed Berlin. TK's ex LHR prices are very high and TK allocated LHR exclusively for IST and onward transit pax. That is not likely to change at all. Secondary markets in Türkiye are pushed ...
Jump to postRe-branding is a serious matter and from what I see neither the brand name Ajet nor the new logo is far from looking good. I can't say I liked AnadoluJet either but I would favor it over Ajet for sure. I dislike airline names that ends with Jet as this restricts your fleet to jet only. Ajet is a reg...
Jump to postUzbekistan Airways schedules Tashkent – Ankara nonstop service. Flights will commence on November 4th with Uzbekistan Express A320 aircraft serving once a week. Schedule is as follows; HY9291 TAS 06:15 – 09;15 ESB 32N 6 HY9292 ESB 10;45 – 16;50 TAS 32N 6 The route is already operated by AnadoluJet a...
Jump to postAnadoluJet decided to make Ankara ESB London STN flights year-round, the winter timetable will be as follows; TK5590 ESB 12:45 - 15:00 STN (Wed, Fri, Sun) TK5591 STN 16:00 - 21:55 ESB (Wed, Fri, Sun) Pegasus continues to operate ESB STN ESB thrice weekly in winter timetable, the flights are turning ...
Jump to postESB will get another daily international destination from next month. TK's low cost arm AJet will resume daily Ankara – Beirut service, last served until September 2021. From 29OCT23, Boeing 737-800 aircraft to operate this route everyday. Schedule will be as follows; TK7958 ESB2355 – 0015+1BEY 73H ...
Jump to postGood news really, IST needs more long haul carriers. I hope we will see AC and UA (and/or DL) as well. It's a pity that no North American airline is flying to Europe's largest airport. Another airline is coming to Istanbul (IST). China Eastern Airlines (MU), 3 times a week with A330 from Shanghai Pu...
Jump to postI guess an airport like LHR where no LCC's fly to/from. Of course, London itself is quite a unique aviation market and capacity and slot restrictions play an important role in the fact that LHR is only served by mainly premium airlines. IST on the other hand is a different story but the fact that AJ...
Jump to postSo in other words you are thinking that IST is actually an LCC hub. In this case there is no need to discuss this topic further. My perception of IST was more like LHR and SAW is more like LGW or STN but I guess you disagree. The airport seems to be more of a premium facility than an LCC hub so this...
Jump to postGood to hear THAI is coming back to Istanbul as it has been a long absence since 1998. Also good to see another premium airline starting to serve IST as the airport is vulnerable to TK organic growth by over 90% and this has been dangerous for a healthy growth strategy. There is a lot of debate as t...
Jump to postTK reported today that Ajet was established as a new trademark name for AnadoluJet and in the very near future it will be a separate entity from TK, an independent LCC. Social media discussions mostly say that THY will sell this LCC eventually and will try to fund part of TK's enormous expansion and...
Jump to postAnadoluJet is reinstating ESB STN ESB thrice weekly from July 16th 2023.
The schedule is as follows;
TK5590 ESB 12:45 - STN 15:00 Wed, Fri, Sun
TK5591 STN 16:00 - ESB 21:55 Wed, Fri, Sun
These flights will supplement Pegasus' 4 weekly flights on Ankara Stansted sector
Thanks for sharing. ESB is seeing the highest number of international passenger growth that is around 50% increase on a month-to-month basis for 2023 compared to last year mainly because of the number of new direct services launched by airlines other than TK. From this month the numbers will even go...
Jump to postPegasus launched direct flights between Ankara and Warsaw on June 4th, one flight per week. Interestingly Pegasus is also starting twice weekly direct flights between Ankara and Krakow on July 10th 2023. Pegasus sees no competition on these direct services between Ankara and Poland.
Jump to postLots of new direct services and/or new airlines are launching direct flights from ESB in May and June as follows; • Aeroflot reinstating direct flights between Ankara and Moscow Sheremetyevo thrice weekly from June 8th (after a hiatus of 20 years). This is the first time Ankara will be connected to ...
Jump to postAgreed. 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 bigge...
Jump to postAgreed. 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...
Jump to postThe recent agreements between UA and EK and the way UAE airlines have doubled their rights/slots to Canada is not a very good news for TK. UA went out of their scope by entering into such an extensive deal with EK ignoring Star Alliance member airlines in the region. TK should be worried and align h...
Jump to postPegasus is launching one weekly direct flight between Ankara and Warsaw on June 4th.
Jump to postESB is continuing to add new destinations to its network as an alternative gateway point to Central Asia.
AnadoluJet is inaugurating 4 weekly year-round service to Kyrgyzstan from Ankara starting on June 2nd as follows;
TK5598 ESB2355 – 0735+1 FRU 73H x134
TK5599 FRU0830 – 1030 ESB 73H x125
SAW is operating with one runaway and is slot restricted. BA will not leave IST completely but kudos to BA for launching LHR SAW that emerged due to TK's policy of allocating all LHR slots to IST exclusively and not to any other airport in Turkey. TK has been dragging their feet not to launch LHR ES...
Jump to postAgree, there are problems with crews, pilots these days. Let's hope AJet can complete the fleet overhaul, the momentum is impressive but they do not have enough metal to meet the demand as of yet unfortunately. Their capacity exESB is still below pre-pandemic and I hope they manage to come up with s...
Jump to postBA is launching 4 times pw LHR SAW LHR from June 1st. This is a great move by BA and I hope LHR ESB will follow. This is a good response to TK's policy of allocating all LHR slots exclusively to IST only, That has been very wrong and triggered this development actually. SAW and ESB are the two of fi...
Jump to postWidebodies can operate on some routes with big potential from SAW and ESB to ADB, DIY, TZX, AYT during the winter. Before Ajet came into existence A310's were frequently used by TK between ESB and DIY and AYT for example. Also winter schedules see christmas holiday in Europe where ethnic travel by T...
Jump to postTK should also consider transferring a few A330's to AJet and replacing them with new w/b in their main fleet. AJet has some trunk routes exSAW and exESB that could take A330 as well as Haj flights that are done by mainline TK frame from ESB and other stations in Turkey. Actually, it's still very ma...
Jump to postKLM should reinstate direct flights between AMS and ESB. KL stopped the flights at the downturn of the First Gulf War and never returned after serving the route continously from 1954 till 1990. KL has been the first European airline to serve the new Turkish capital in 1954 and there is a potential f...
Jump to postBA is increasing LHR IST to 4 daily next month and TK is increasing to 7 daily with the recent slots TK secured from PIA. This is 11 flights between LHR and IST per day, in fact the number of daily flights from London Airports to two Istanbul airports (IST and SAW) are 24 as follows; - TK: 7x daily ...
Jump to postYes, and first and foremost TK needs to rethink its London presence in terms of the new demographics and market requirements that actually is not sustainable with a centralized IST based flight policy. TK has been pursuing this policy historically and intentionally avoiding and refraining from seein...
Jump to postThanks for sharing the update on frequency and schedules between London and IST and SAW. London hosts the biggest number of Turks in the world living outside Turkey being 600.000 including the Turkish Cypriots (400k). Home Office estimates that there is another 100k of third nationality Turks in Lon...
Jump to postYes that was reported initially before but I think this is the schedule to start with and will be updated along the line. They will do internaitonal flights via intermediate stops in Turkey most probably AYT to London, Teheran, Moscow, Baku etc. Let's give them sometime, I am sure they will come up ...
Jump to postNew Turkish Cypriot Airline FlyKhy FLY KIBRIS HAVA YOLLARI will start operations on April 16th and scheduled services to Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir are as follows;
https://www.flykhy.com/sayfa/ucus-tarifelerimiz
4 aircrafts involved
Tkairlines wrote:Jump to postAccording to Airport Haber TK has grounded some A321 Neos due to engine problems, namely Prat and Witney. Does anyone have further info as to how many aircraft?
Flights start on April 17, 2023, schedule of Ankara Tashkent flight is as follows; TK4328 ESB2305 – 0510+1TAS 73H 1 TK4329 TAS0630 – 0915ESB 73H 2 ESB is making progress to becoming a gateway to ME and Asia, Ajet will launch Ankara Tashkent flights on April 17th. This is a yearround service and will...
Jump to postESB is making progress to becoming a gateway to ME and Asia, Ajet will launch Ankara Tashkent flights on April 17th. This is a yearround service and will start with once a week in summer timetable. Iraqi Airways is also increasing Baghdad Ankara to double daily on four days of the week and along wit...
Jump to postI wonder if XQ would launch service between Ankara and Islamabad or Karachi
TK773ER wrote:Jump to postSunExpress, has been granted permission by the aviation authorities to start flight operations in Pakistan.
https://arynews.tv/one-more-turkiye-air ... -pakistan/
Pegasus ESB Moscow Domodedovo flights will commence on April 15th 2023 with thrice weekly departure on days 1,3 and 6 at 23:55 ESB departure. Moscow departure will be on days 2,4 and 7 at 5:20 am.
Pegasus is expected to announce the schedule for ESB St Petersburg soon as well.
SAW has capacity issues due to lack of second runway, I am sure once and if that would be resolved preference would be SAW over IST for most of the LCC's. EasyJet just announced MAN-IST 2x weekly starting June 9. https://simpleflying.com/easyjet-announces-manchester-istanbul/ Low cost carriers are i...
Jump to postflyKHY will use the Freebird Airlines certifications to start with. Among daily scheduled services to Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir there will be charter flights to several international destinations including Erbil, Tehran, Pristina, Amman, Baku and Moscow. It was not made clear in any press releases ...
Jump to postLOT will start Krakow Istanbul thrice weekly on April 27th with E190 TK will do Istanbul Krakow thrice weekly with 737-900 from May 1st LOT will increase Warsaw Istanbul from 14 to 18 flights per week in 2023 summer timetable No word on Katowice as of yet Turkish has now switched from Katowice to Kr...
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