Istanbul SAW has much to celebrate. It welcomed over 37 million passengers in the calendar year of 2023, its highest volume to date, making it among Europe’s busiest airports. It was the second year to have more international passengers than domestic. Even more significantly, its second runway has opened. This will prove utterly vital in […]
January 26, 2024 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
AnadoluJet, which is part of Turkish Airlines, operating as the company’s lower-cost unit, and uses the carrier’s IATA code of TK, on Friday 2 June introduced flights between Ankara and Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. The 3,450-kilometre 4-weekly service is being initially maintained on Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, with daily operations to commence in […]
June 9, 2023 | Latest Route News +
AnadoluJet is the lower-cost unit in the Turkish Airlines Group. Focusing on markets away from Istanbul IST, AnadoluJet is expected to be spun off by Turkish Airlines. Yet the budget brand’s ambition is clear. It is expected to have 200 aircraft by 2033, up from the present 75. While more than half of its current […]
April 26, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
AnadoluJet, which is part of Turkish Airlines and uses the airline’s IATA code of TK, on 15 March introduced flights between Ankara and Dubai. The 2,655-kilometre 2-weekly service is being maintained each Wednesday and Sunday, with the Boeing 737-800 aircraft. TK4302 departs Ankara at 00:50 local time, arriving in Dubai at 05:45 local time. The […]
February 16, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Turkey’s capital and the country’s second-biggest city, Ankara, saw its airport welcome 8.6 million passengers in 2022, based on statistics from airport operator TAV. That was just 62% of its 2019 traffic. The airport is dominated by AnadoluJet, a unit that is supposedly to be spun off from Turkish Airlines to operate independently. According to […]
Back in the summer of 2019 the leading carrier between the UK and Turkey was Thomas Cook Airlines. When the airline ceased operating in September of that year, there would have been concerns about the future of the market. And then came the pandemic. So it may come as a surprise, that this summer the […]
May 6, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
AnadoluJet is a brand of Turkish Airlines and is favoured by the Turkish flag-carrier when it comes to operating from Antalya and also Istanbul SAW. Unhelpfully from an analyst’s perspective, it also shares the same “TK” code as its parent company. Although Pegasus Airlines is the biggest carrier at Istanbul’s second airport, Turkish Airlines has […]
December 22, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story