2023-05-12 05:00:00
The airline company Turkish Airlines will announce next month an order for 400 single-aisle aircraft et 200 jumbo jetsin order to increase its fleet to 813 aircraft by 2033. Enough to beat the last record recently established by Air India.
No mention of Airbus or Boeing during the announcement by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Turkish national airline Ahmet Bolat at a press conference in Istanbul May 11, 2023, no precision on the date of the upcoming mega-order, but a timetable: deliveries during the next decade, so that Turkish Airlines has 813 aircraft in 2033compared to 332 currently outside subsidiaries (Anadolu Jet operates 79 aircraft).
Ahmet Bolat specified that Turkish Airlines, following an average growth of 12% during the last twenty years, ” aim for a 7.6% growth the next ten years. We have almost finalized discussions with one of the major aircraft manufacturers “, which might be announced ” at an IATA event “. With the other, the announcement would have to wait” the living room which will be held in June at Le Bourget.
The company of Star Alliance currently operates alongside single-aisle 122 Airbus (A319, A320, A321neo – 39 of the 92 ordered for it and Anadolu Jet), and 80 Boeing (including 20 737 MAX 8 and five 737 MAX 9, with no orders in progress). On the long-courrierit has 50 Airbus A330-200s and -300s and twelve A350-900s (14 more expected), as well as 33 Boeing 777-300ERs and 16 of the 25 787-9 Dreamliners expected.
When confirmed, this Turkish Airlines order will exceed the previous one record of 470 aircraft acquired firm (letters of intent at this stage) by Indian water in February, including 250 Airbuses and 220 Boeings for around $68 billion. An order that broke the previous record ofAmerican Airlines (460 single-aisle aircraft from the two manufacturers in 2011), with third place currently going to Indigo Partners (430 Airbus single-aisle aircraft for its low-cost subsidiaries including Wizz Air and Frontier Airlines among others). And we are still waiting for confirmation of the rumor lending to the low cost IndiGO intends to order 500 aircraft.
✈️
Soaring to the top with the goal of becoming the most prestigious airline in the world on our 100th anniversary!We constantly aim to provide our guests with maximized flight comfort with new investments in the field of customer experience.#TurkishAirlines pic.twitter.com/RLZYobpyDe
— Turkish Airlines (@TurkishAirlines) May 9, 2023
©Airbus
©Boeing
1684050753
#Turkish #Airlines #order #planes
