May 2018 bring joy and peace to you and your family.
You can find last months thread here:
viewtopic.php?p=20053043#p20053043
-We finished last year with another order of 3 x 77Fs for TK, to join the above two. TK already announced Aguadilla, Bogota, Houston, Kano, Miami, Taipei Taoyuan and Toronto freighter service which will start in the next coming months.
-TK has done good in 2017. It’s stock price went up from 5.15TL to 15.69TL in 2017. Let’s hope it stays this way.
-3 TK Airbus A320-232s are excepted to leave the fleet in 2018, we might see 340s leave the fleet this year? TK will receive 7 x 738MAX and 3 x 321NEO in 2018
-Pegasus received its 14th A320NEO and will receive number 15 and 16 shortly. Pegasus to receive 7 A320NEO total this year and they exercised options and will get 25 more A321NEOs.
-Istanbul might get its new airport later this year, if not in early 2019. Video from last month thread as to what it will look like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LrIta ... e=youtu.be
-It is also a good relief for TK that the Turkey-USA visa problems seem to be a thing of the past.
-TK predicted in 8/17 that they will carry 31M domestic and 38M int. pax for a total of 69M pax in 2017. Also TK said Load Factor will be 77-78% and 1100ton Cargo will be carried.
-Also TK to open routes to Freetown (Sierra Leone), Samarkand (Uzbekistan), Aqaba (Jordan) and Krasnodar (Russia) in 2018.
Please continue with your views, news, photos, rumors and good old sense of humor. Thank you.
Safe travels and Happy Landings to all
