AtlasGlobal Airlines (formerly Atlasjet Airlines) (Istanbul) will start daily Airbus A321 service between Istanbul (Ataturk) and Paris (CDG) starting on Friday (July 10) per Airline Route.
Copyright Photo: Antony J. Best/Airlinersgallery.com. Airbus A321-131 TC-ETN (msn 614) lands at London (Luton).
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Turkish Airlines (Istanbul) on May 16, 2016 will add Atlanta and the nonstop Istanbul (Ataturk) – Atlanta route. The new route will be operate on a daily basis with Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft per Airline Route.
Copyright Photo: SPA/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 777-35R VT-JEM (msn 35162) climbs away from London’s Heathrow Airport.
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Turkish Airlines (Istanbul) flight TK 1878 from Milan (Malpensa) to Istanbul (Ataturk) today (April 25) made an emergency landing at Istanbul after the engine on the Airbus A320 caught on fire.
The aircraft initially reportedly made a hard landing with the right engine and wing contacting the runway. The crew performed a go around and then made the emergency landing.
According to Reuters the 97 passengers and crew members were safely taken to the terminal.
The aircraft involved is A320-232 TC-JPE (msn 2941) painted in the Star Alliance livery.
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Turkish Airlines (Istanbul) yesterday (April 13) launched its new route from Istanbul to San Francisco, its seventh U.S. destination.
The pictured Boeing 777-3F2 ER TC-JJU (msn 60401) is painted in this special Istanbul-San Francisco color scheme with scenes on the left side of San Francisco (above) and Istanbul on the right side (below).
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This is how you inaugurate a new route. Well done Turkish Airlines.
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All others below by Turkish Airlines and San Francisco International Airport. The ribbon is cut in the departure from SFO.
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul) flight TK 726 from Istanbul skidded off a foggy runway today (March 4) while landing at Kathmandu, Nepal. The Airbus A330-303 TC-JOC (msn 1522) had already aborted a previous approach and was circling the airport before attempting to land again. The aircraft skidded off the runway and the nose gear collapsed. The passengers used the emergency chutes to evacuate the airliner.
According to this report by NBC, only one passenger out of the 224 passengers and crew members on board was injured.
Turkish Airlines issued this short statement:
Our flight number TK726 from ฤฐstanbul to Kathmandu overshot the runway after landing at Napal / Kathmandu.
All of our passengers and flight crew evacuated safely.
Necessary precautions are taken; after the technical investigation, this unfortunate incident will be determined and announced to public.
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Vueling Airlines (Barcelona) will add Rabat (Morocco), Yerba (Tunisia) and Accra (Ghana) from Barcelona starting on June 20.
The airline will also launch a summer service to Istanbul.ย From June through October the airline will fly three times a week from Barcelona.
After launching flights to Marrakech in 2009, the airline gradually added new African services and now has 16 routes reaching 11 destinations on the continent: Marrakech, Rabat, Casablanca, Nador, and Fez in Morocco; Tunis and Yerba in Tunisia; Algiers and Oran in Algeria; Dakar in Senegal; Banjul in Gambia; and Accra in Ghana. At 3,960 km, the Barcelona-Ghana route will be the longest operated by the airline.
Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-232 EC-LZE (msn 5885) taxies at Palma de Mallorca.
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Turkish Airlines (Istanbul) will start a new route from Istanbul (IST) to Manila next year. The new route will be operated three days week with Airbus A340-300 aircraft starting on March 30, 2015 according to Airline Route.
Copyright Photo: Ken Petersen/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A340-311 TC-JDJ (msn 023) taxies at New York (JFK).
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Qatar Airways‘ (Doha) CEO Akbar Al Baker in an interview with AFP and quoted by ArabianBusiness.com, termed European airlines as being “inefficient”. The comment came in response to complaints by European carriers, especially Air France-KLM, of unfair competition from the Gulf’s “Big Three”.
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In other news,ย Qatar Airways will expand its flights to Istanbul Sabiha Gรถkรงen Airport from March 29, 2015, as it increases its frequency to a double-daily service.
The new daily flight, operated by a two-class, Airbus A320 aircraft, will depart Doha at 0945, arriving in Sabiha Gรถkรงen Airport at 1400 and return from Sabiha Gรถkรงen Airport at 1500, arriving back in Doha at 1855.
Qatar Airways recently celebrated its 10 years of successful operations to Turkey. The airline began services to Istanbul Ataturk International Airport in 2004 marking Qatar Airwaysโ first destination in Turkey, and due to popular passenger demand has been steadily increasing its number of flights to the country.
Qatar Airways currently operates to three destinations in Turkey โ Istanbul Sabiha Gรถkรงen Airport (daily flights), Istanbul Ataturk Airport (10-flights-a-week) and Ankara (four-weekly-flights).
The nonstop four-flights-a-week service from Doha to Istanbul Sabiha Gรถkรงen Airport was launched on May 22nd this year, marking Qatar Airwaysโ addition of its third route to Turkey. Due to an increase in demand, Qatar Airways added three additional flights from October 26 to Sabiha Gรถkรงen Airport, marking the launch of daily flights to the airport.
Qatar Airwaysย will also operate a daily nonstop scheduled service from Dohaโs Hamad International Airport to Edinburgh Airport from May 1, 2015. The announcement comes just six months after the successful launch of the five-weekly service on the route and reinforces the airlineโs commitment to add additional frequencies on the route, which it announced at the launch.
The daily QR 027 outbound service and QR 028 inbound service is operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Edinburgh is Qatar Airwaysโ third destination in the UK, preceded by London in 1997 and Manchester in 2003. The airline currently operates six flights a day from London Heathrow nonstop to Doha, including โBusiness Oneโ, the all-business class A319. The airline also operates 10 flights per week from Manchester nonstop to Doha.
Photo: CEO Al Baker (Qatar Airways).
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Kharkiv Airlines (Kharkiv, Ukraine) on September 16 added two new routes Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen) from both Odessa and Kharkiv. Kharkiv is in disputed eastern portion of the Ukraine.
Kharkiv Airlines, a charter airline until now, becomes a scheduled carrier with these two routes.
Copyright Photo: Karl Corni/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 737-8Q8 UR-CLS (msn 32841) arrives in Antalya.
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Azerbaijan Airlines-AZAL (Baku) has announced the start of scheduled flights from Baku to New York commencing on September 24, 2014. Flights to John Kennedy Airport (JFK) in New York City will be flown weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays with departure from Baku at 0600 and arriving to the biggest city of North America at 0930 local time. The return flights will be operated on the same days of the week leaving New York at 1130 and coming to the capital of Azerbaijan at 0800 the next day.
The flights will be operated with Airbus A340-500s.
Copyright Photo: Rainer Bexten/AirlinerGallery.com. Airbus A340-542 4K-AZ85 9msn 886) arrives in Istanbul.
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