Turkish Airlines

[Brum X]

Great stuff Turkish Airlines

 

[Ray Finkle]

It seems as if the move to the new Istanbul Airport has now been pushed back to March.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Daily MAX 9 from May 27th.

Turkish Airlines outlines 737 MAX 9 S19 network

Istanbul – Basel/Mulhouse eff 01APR19 1 daily (2 daily from 29APR19)
Istanbul – Birmingham eff 27MAY19 1 daily
Istanbul – Bishkek eff 31MAR19 1 daily
Istanbul – Cologne 24JUN19 – 22JUL19 1 weekly
Istanbul – Dublin eff 31MAR19 1 daily
Istanbul – Gassim 01AUG19
Istanbul – Kazan eff 24JUN19 1 daily (Except selected dates)
Istanbul – Malta eff 29APR19 1 daily
Istanbul – Muscat eff 31MAR19 1 daily
Istanbul – Odessa eff 29MAY19 4 weekly
Istanbul – Sharm el Sheikh eff 29APR19 1 daily
Istanbul – Tbilisi eff 27MAY19 1 daily
Istanbul – Thessaloniki eff 25JUN19 6 weekly (1 daily from 29JUL19)

https://www.routesonline.com/news/3...kish-airlines-outlines-737-max-9-s19-network/

 

[Brum X]

Great to see a regular 737 max at BHX

 

[Ray Finkle]

Due to the CAA decision on the 737 MAX8 today's Turkish Airlines flight turned around overhead Germany and headed back to Istanbul. The aircraft was TC-LCD.

 

[JENNYJET]

With the ban placed upon the MAX, will TUI and others be consolidating flights with larger equipment to return booked passengers? Some interesting leases possible? Turkish may deploy A330 perhaps or B739?

 

[thunderchild]

Turkish have 11 Max8 and 1 Max9 so there should be little disruption; perhaps we might see a standard 737 or A321 operate a delayed flight later this evening or one of tomorrow’s flights might be upgraded. That’s the beauty of TKs fleet, they can’t pretty much send what they want when they want.

 

[Glenn Eldridge]

Turkish have 11 Max8 and 1 Max9 so there should be little disruption; perhaps we might see a standard 737 or A321 operate a delayed flight later this evening or one of tomorrow’s flights might be upgraded. That’s the beauty of TKs fleet, they can’t pretty much send what they want when they want.

With the ban placed upon the MAX, will TUI and others be consolidating flights with larger equipment to return booked passengers? Some interesting leases possible? Turkish may deploy A330 perhaps or B739?

A330 tomorrow

 

[Ianbutty]

Max only flying in North and part of South America and small area of Asia. Boeing should issue advice to ground them all. If another one crashes or has a similar technical problem Boeing will regret not acting. Hopefully all the national Aviation authorities will ground them. Lives matter more than earnings and profit.

 

[Aviador]

Turkish Airlines has decided to take the 737 MAX out of service pending the investigation into the recent Ethiopian accident.

 

[58terminus]

Due to the CAA decision on the 737 MAX8 today's Turkish Airlines flight turned around overhead Germany and headed back to Istanbul. The aircraft was TC-LCD.

Like to know how the crew explained that to the passengers. How do you say we are turning back because the aircraft you are flying
in is considered by the UK authorities to be unsafe. Tough one.

 

[Matt995]

Like to know how the crew explained that to the passengers. How do you say we are turning back because the aircraft you are flying
in is considered by the UK authorities to be unsafe. Tough one.

saw a clip on the news, and they spoke to a passenger on one of the flights that returned to Istanbul, the pilot said that 'UK airspace was closed", and then said "due to bad weather!"

 

[Jerry]

saw a clip on the news, and they spoke to a passenger on one of the flights that returned to Istanbul, the pilot said that 'UK airspace was closed", and then said "due to bad weather!"

I suppose they didn't want to alarm the passengers.

 

[Coathanger16]

the pilot said that 'UK airspace was closed", and then said "due to bad weather!"

Well the first part of that isn't exactly a lie. The pilot just didn't mention who/what UK airspace was closed to

 

[jfy1999]

A333 TC-LOE is due to arrive at 10:10.

 

[Matt995]

With the 737 Max scheduled for most of the Summer BHX flights, I hope the ban won’t impact the schedules? Maybe a route to keep an eye on if the ban lasts a while could we see cancellations regularly?

 

[Ray Finkle]

It seems as if all of the MAX variants have now been grounded.

The Turkish website still shows 14x weekly but it also shows the afternoon flight as a MAX9 from May, so I guess it's just a wait and see.

 

[Brum X]

It seems as if all of the MAX variants have now been grounded.

The Turkish website still shows 14x weekly but it also shows the afternoon flight as a MAX9 from May, so I guess it's just a wait and see.

 

[David_itl]

I wouldn't be unduly worried about the route not having the planned increase. I'm not fully up to date on the induction of the MAX fleet into TK but if they are replacing some earlier 737 models with them, there is always the possibility of them postponing the retirement of the older aircraft pending restrictions on MAX flying being lifted.

 

[Seasider]

That may not be possible if the leases are up.