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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 November 2024, Turkish Airlines operates a fleet of 379 Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The airline started its operations in 1933 with only five planes.
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.
On December 23, 1979, a Turkish Airlines Fokker F28 Fellowship 1000 airliner, registration TC-JAT, named Trabzon, on a domestic passenger flight from Samsun Airport to Esenboğa International Airport in Ankara, flew into the side of a hill 1,400 m (4,600 ft) near the village of Kuyumcuköy in Çubuk district of Ankara Province, 32 km (20 mi) north-northeast of the destination airport on ...
Turkish Airlines was established on 20 May 1933 as Turkish State Airlines (Turkish: Devlet Hava Yolları) [18] as a department of the Ministry of National Defense. [19] 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 . [ 19 ]
The aircraft was registered in the name of Turkish Airlines Incorporated. The airframe had a total flight time of 548 hours and the engines had each run approximately 615 hours since manufacture. The Turkish authorities certified after examining the appropriate records and log books in Turkey that the maintenance had been properly carried out.
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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 ]
Last month, a juvenile gorilla was found onboard a Turkish Airlines flight from Nigeria to Thailand. Officials believe the gorilla was being trafficked for the illegal wildlife trade, finding the ...