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Deli Mike or Deli Mayk (English: Crazy Mike) is a nickname given to an Airbus A340-300 operated by Turkish Airlines with civil registration TC-JDM.The aircraft joined the Turkish Airlines fleet in 1996 to replace the McDonnell Douglas DC-10s of the airline and was used to operate long-haul flights out of Turkey.
An Airbus A330, of which Turkish Airlines is the second largest operator of the type, at now defunct Istanbul Atatürk Airport, with multiple other Turkish Airlines aircraft in the background. As of January 2025, Turkish Airlines operates a fleet of 373 Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The airline started its operations in 1933 with only five planes.
Turkish Airlines was established on 20 May 1933 as Turkish State Airlines (Turkish: Devlet Hava Yolları) [19] as a department of the Ministry of National Defense. [20] The airline's initial fleet consisted of two five-seat Curtiss Kingbirds , two four-seat Junkers F 13s and one ten-seat Tupolev ANT-9 . [ 20 ]
The 37-year-old science teacher said she found 13 bite marks on her body afterward and took photos. After filing her complaint, Turkish Airlines told Bourgeois it required a doctor's medical ...
[citation needed] The plane was one of a group of five DC-10-10s owned by Mitsui, which intended to sell the planes to All Nippon Airways; however, the Japanese airline selected the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, due to bribery by Lockheed. As a result, three of the planes went to Turkish Airlines and the remaining two went to Laker Airways.
It was only in 2003, that major barriers for market entry were erased, leading to a more competitive market, though Turkish Airlines continued to benefit from state support. [ 2 ] As of 2023, Turkish Airlines is one of the major airlines of the world, particularly by its number of international passengers with 83.4 million passengers. [ 3 ]
A fact from Turkish Airlines fleet appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 July 2022 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that when expanding the airline's fleet in 1989, the directors of Turkish Airlines did not fulfil the request of Turkey's president to buy the Boeing 747, and ordered the Airbus A340 (example pictured) instead?
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