Turkish Airlines

[Ray Finkle]

Airline Routes are usually on the ball so it's surprising if they missed that one.

 

[User001]

Sometimes Airlineroute do make innocent errors, but, Ray is correct that the rise from 13 to 14 weekly was due in May anyway.

There were a LOT of changes for TK in the original post, so, it could just be a case of innocent mis communication.

 

[Ray Finkle]

BHX press release.

Turkish Airlines to Extend to Double Daily Flights from Birmingham Airport

Turkish Airlines will increase its services between Birmingham and Istanbul from 12 flights a week to double daily from the 30th May 2016, offering more than 600 extra seats a week from the Midlands.

Double daily flights give passengers greater choice and flexibility, which is particularly beneficial for business travellers. It also means that customers have greater access to Turkish Airlines’ extensive route network from Istanbul to 283 destinations around the world.

The airline has a successful story to tell. Starting with five services to Istanbul in December 2008, Turkish Airlines soon realised the strong demand in the Birmingham region and increased the number of flights in January 2012 to seven weekly departures. Later that year it increased to ten departures per week and in December 2014 the Airport welcomed news that the programme would grow to 12 weekly flights.

Selim Ozturk, General Manager for Birmingham, Turkish Airlines, said, “Birmingham Airport is a hugely successful base for us and we have grown significantly over the past eight years. This double daily announcement gives passengers even more choice and with 283 onward destinations via Istanbul throughout the Middle East, the Far East and Africa, Birmingham Airport really is the gateway to the world with our award winning airline.”

Initially, flights will increase to 13 per week from the 27th March and then to double daily from the 30th May.

Paul Kehoe, Chief Executive, Birmingham Airport, added, “Turkish Airlines is a fantastic carrier and partner to have here at Birmingham Airport. Starting eight years ago the service has gone from strength to strength carrying hundreds of thousands of passengers. The Turkish Airlines in-flight product is award winning and extremely popular – which is demonstrated by more and more people choosing to experience the service, reliability and affordability it offers.

“I congratulate the Turkish Airlines team on doing a great job here in the region and increasing passenger numbers year-on-year, and for further committing to Birmingham Airport.”

Turkish Airlines has some great offers departing from Birmingham Airport to Bangkok from £414 and Singapore from £441. Bookings can be made by calling the airline’s reservations number on 0844 800 66 66, or online at http://www.thy.com or through local travel agents.

https://birminghamairport.co.uk/media-i ... m-airport/

 

[nwoody2001]

this one has been slow news to get out, but that said, its been pretty quiet of late....

 

[Brum X]

Turkish Airlines now double daily to Istanbul. Another airline going from strength to strength at BHX.
https://www.birminghamairport.co.uk...aunches-double-daily-flights-from-Birmingham/

 

[User001]

Turkish have reduced a large amount of European flying this winter, this means for Birmingham, a drop from 14 to 10 weekly.

To put it in perspective for other UK/Ireflights

MAN goes 19>14 weekly
EDI goes 7>5 weekly
DUB goes 14>10 weekly
LGW-IST goes 21>14 weekly
LGW-SAW goes 7>5 weekly.

 

[Brum X]

It appears the issues in Turkey are having an effect on Turkish Airlines.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Turkish are showing as back up to 12x weekly from the end of March, just Tue and Wed with a single flight.

Their website shows a 737-900 in the morning and 737-800 in the afternoon, Tue sees one 739, Wed sees one 738.

 

[IanFarquharson]

Maybe a nice increase from TK in 2018 ?
Watch this space

 

[58terminus]

Maybe a nice increase from TK in 2018 ?
Watch this space

Another vague post. An nice increase in frequency or nicer larger aircraft?
Probably just what Ian posted.

 

[flymetothemoon]

Patience now but Ian is referring to frequency i'm informed

 

[davecleaver777]

Back to double daily would be nice

 

[thunderchild]

Back to double daily would be nice

Indeed. Before the incident at Ataturk Airport I had hopes they might have been on the road to getting towards x3 daily.

 

[IanFarquharson]

I am hearing 17 pw

 

[Kevin Farnell]

From Ian's post -

Maybe a nice increase from TK in 2018 ?
Watch this space

I suspected that he was hinting at more than just a return to double daily.

With regard to larger aircraft, whilst I'm sure many of us would love to see this we have to be aware of Turkish Airlines business plan. This is to provide convenient one-stop links via it's hub at Istanbul. As such, extra frequency will usually be the preferred way to increase passenger feed into it's hub. This will be the case, until each wave of arrivals/departures is connected.
The exception to this, would be if a particular city pairing (via IST) had a very high demand but one of those cities was only served once daily.

Kevin

 

[JF57]

From Ian's post -



I suspected that he was hinting at more than just a return to double daily.

With regard to larger aircraft, whilst I'm sure many of us would love to see this we have to be aware of Turkish Airlines business plan. This is to provide convenient one-stop links via it's hub at Istanbul. As such, extra frequency will usually be the preferred way to increase passenger feed into it's hub. This will be the case, until each wave of arrivals/departures is connected.
The exception to this, would be if a particular city pairing (via IST) had a very high demand but one of those cities was only served once daily.

Kevin

I suppose there is logic to both size and frequency. Emirates clearly prefer size.

 

[Coathanger16]

I suppose there is logic to both size and frequency. Emirates clearly prefer size.

I think that generally depends on how long the route is (i.e. short haul vs long haul). Typically expansion is done by frequency on short haul and by larger aircraft on long haul.

 

[flymetothemoon]

If TK go to 17 per week as i have heard I hope that won't damage the QR loads as they are
not that stable at the moment and Cardiff starts soon which also may have an effect

 

[Kevin Farnell]

I suppose there is logic to both size and frequency. Emirates clearly prefer size.

Emirates also have slot availability issues at Dubai.

Kevin

 

[Ray Finkle]

Should they get the relevant permissions Turkish are looking at adding major capacity into India, routes such as Birmingham would form a key part of making those connections work.

It should be pointed out that 17 weekly has been applied for but that doesn't mean it will definitely happen. It's not uncommon to see such applications appear but never see the light of day.

We can hope though