Tailwind Airlines
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Founded | 2006 | ||||||
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Fleet size | 7 | ||||||
Destinations | 40+ | ||||||
Parent company | Tailwind Havayolları | ||||||
Headquarters | Istanbul, Turkey | ||||||
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Website | tailwind.com.tr |
Tailwind Airlines is an airline based in Istanbul, Turkey, whichs operates wet-lease charter flights into Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and Antalya Airport. The airline was founded as a joint Turkish-British project, with the first commercial flight taking place in May 2009.
History
Tailwind Airlines is a Turkish airline based at Antalya Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport. Founded by Kadri Muhiddin, Safi Ergin and Mehmet Demir Uz in 2006, the low-cost airline operated five Boeing 737-400 as of August 2013.
Destinations
As of August 2013, Tailwind Airlines flies to various destinations in Europe and Asia:[1]
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Czech Republic
- France
- Germany
- Berlin – Schönefeld Airport
- Bremen – Bremen Airport
- Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport
- Dortmund – Dortmund Airport
- Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport
- Dresden – Dresden Airport
- Erfurt/Weimar – Erfurt-Weimar Airport
- Hahn – Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
- Hamburg – Hamburg Airport
- Hannover – Hannover Airport
- Kassel – Kassel Airport
- Leipzig – Leipzig/Halle Airport
- Munich – Munich Airport
- Nuremberg – Nuremberg Airport
- Stuttgart – Stuttgart Airport
- Hungary
- Iran
- Israel
- Italy
- Norway
- Slovakia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Adana – Adana Airport
- Ankara – Esenboğa Airport
- Alanya – Antalya Gazipasa Airport
- Antalya – Antalya Airport (Hub)
- Bodrum – Milas-Bodrum Airport
- Dalaman – Dalaman Airport
- Ercan – Ercan Airport
- Eskişehir - Hasan Polatkan Airport
- Istanbul – Sabiha Gökçen Airport (Hub)
- Isparta – Süleyman Demirel Airport
- Izmir – Adnan Menderes Airport
- Kayseri – Erkilet Airport
- Nevşehir – Kapadokya Airport
- Samsun – Samsun-Çarşamba Airport
Fleet
As of June 2015, Tailwind Airlines operates a fleet of seven Aircraft and two of them Boeing 737-800 and five of them 737-400, with an average age of 18.4 years.[2][3]
Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers |
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Boeing 737-400 | 5 | — | 168 |
Boeing 737-800 | 2 | — | 189 |
Total | 7 |
References
- ↑ Tailwind Airlines Destinations
- ↑ Tailwind Airlines fleet list at planespotters.net
- ↑ Fleet Tailwind Airlines. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
External links
Media related to Tailwind Airlines at Wikimedia Commons