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Founded | 23 April 2008 | ||||||
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Frequent-flyer program | Miles & Smiles | ||||||
Fleet size | 37 | ||||||
Destinations | 45 | ||||||
Parent company | Turkish Airlines | ||||||
Headquarters | Ankara, Turkey | ||||||
Key people | Said Şamil KARAKAŞ | ||||||
Website | www |
AnadoluJet is a Turkish regional airline headquartered in Ankara. It is a fully owned subsidiary of Turkish Airlines and operates domestic flights within Turkey and to Northern Cyprus.
History
The airline was founded in 23 April 2008 as a new subsidiary of Turkish Airlines. By establishing AnadoluJet, it was aimed connecting Anatolia to Ankara, simplifying additional services offered Turkish Airlines’passengers, and reflecting cost advantage of economic class configuration to ticket prices. In this way, airport transportation was provided to more wider population and air travel became more attractive with reflecting cost advantage to ticket prices. The surface area of time travels by road and rail in large countries such as Turkey is quite long. AnadoluJet, providing the opportunity to realize the long-distance travels of the Anatolian people more intensively and thus passengers will travel by air is intended to provide a huge time saver. Domestic tourism activities from continuing Esenboga İnternational Airport and Sabiha Gokcen Airport, on the other hand, is contributing to the development of trade relations in general in Anatolia.
On 4 September 2008, the airline started international flights connecting Hatay and Ercan International Airport.
Number of passengers increased 65% in Ankara routes, load factor reached the level of 85%. Starting operation with 5 airplanes, AnadoluJet achieved; 8 airplane fleet in its first year and 16 airplane fleet in the middle of 2010. AnadoluJet which currently flies to 42 points in Anatolia, is managed by THY A.O. Chairman of Regional Flights Said Şamil Karakaş and his team. AnadoluJet Turkish Airlines is a sub-brand, the codes used for flight numbers are prefixed with TK 7000 and above. Example: Izmir –a flight number for Ankara would be TK 7005.
Destinations
As of September 2016, AnadoluJet serves the following destinations:[1]
- Adana Airport
- Adıyaman Airport
- Ağrı Airport
- Ankara Esenboğa Airport
- Antalya Airport
- Antalya Gazipaşa-Alanya Airport
- Balıkesir Koca Seyit Airport
- Batman Airport
- Bingöl Airport
- Bursa Yenişehir Airport
- Çanakkale Airport
- Denizli Çardak Airport
- Diyarbakır Airport
- Elazığ Airport
- Erzincan Airport
- Erzurum Airport
- Gaziantep Airport
- Hakkari Yüksekova Airport
- Hatay Airport
- Iğdır Airport
- İstanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport
- İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport
- Kahramanmaraş Airport
- Kars Harakani Airport
- Kayseri Airport
- Kocaeli Cengiz Topel Airport
- Konya Airport
- Malatya Airport
- Mardin Airport
- Muğla Milas-Bodrum Airport
- Muğla Dalaman Airport
- Muş Airport
- Nevşehir Kapadokya Airport
- Ordu-Giresun Airport
- Samsun-Çarşamba Airport
- Sivas Nuri Demirağ Airport
- Şanlıurfa GAP Airport
- Şırnak Şerafettin Elçi Airport
- Tekirdağ Çorlu Airport
- Trabzon Airport
- Van Ferit Melen Airport
Codeshare agreements
AnadoluJet additionally maintains codeshare agreements with parent company Turkish Airlines.
Fleet
As of September 2016, the AnadoluJet fleet consists of the following aircraft:[2]
Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers[2] | Notes | |
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Y | Total | ||||
Boeing 737-800 | 37 | — | 189 | 189 | |
Total | 37 | — |
References
- ^ thy.com - Flight Schedule retrieved 20 September 2016
- ^ a b "AnadoluJet". Retrieved 20 September 2016.
External links
Media related to AnadoluJet at Wikimedia Commons