Turkish Airlines

[David_itl]

To be honest, it's not MAN that you need to poach passengers back from.... it's the London airports. If you look at the 2019 CAA passenger surveys, and total the East and West Midlands passenger numbers using "London" and Manchester then you will see that MAN "benefits" from around 2.6 million passengers but collectively, London get over 7 million passengers. And for clarification. from those surveys, 5.9% of MAN passengers are from West Midlands and 4.3% from the East Midlands. The Yorkshire area is 20% of MAN passsengers but that's due to known factors and the country less Northwest England and Yorkshire make up another 20%

 

[hammerb32]

Happy to be corrected but the 5.9% and 4.3% are for scheduled flights only, the number doubles when you include charter traffic, at least that's my understanding of them.

 

[David_itl]

Those figures include the charter flights (only around 230,000 charter passengers from the Midlands use MAN). It's table 4.3a, 4.3b and 4.3c.

https://www.caa.co.uk/Data-and-anal...assenger-survey/2019-Passenger-survey-report/

 

[Ray Finkle]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1403258506367602688

 

[JENNYJET]

Would it be nice if a Turkish B777 turned up one day? We have had everything else!

 

[Karl C]

....not quite.....waiting on the 737 Max9 to rock up too!

 

[JENNYJET]

Another B737? Really?

 

[Karl C]

At the moment anything will do, so long as wheels hit the tarmac. BHX and most airports in the UK need a large helping of green list destination's.

 

[JENNYJET]

I agree totally. My thoughts were about the type, A330 being the current highlight whilst understanding operational requirements!

 

[Karl C]

TK 4 x weekly was due to begin on the 28th June. Has this slipped?

 

[IanFarquharson]

w/c 05.07.21 = 1 flight on Monday
10.07.21-22.07.21 = daily exc. Sunday 11.07.21 & 18.07.21

 

[Matt995]

Turkish website currently showing daily flights to Istanbul from 1st October.

 

[Llandudno]

Turkish to run up to 9 weekly flights for the festive period starting 10th Dec. At least one A330 scheduled on 18th Dec but likely to be more.

 

[Matt995]

summer 2022 current showing double daily flights again on B738's to Istanbul.

Departures:-

Istanbul

TK 1968

M

Tu

W

Th

F

Sa

Su

10:55

16:50

738

27/03/22 - 29/10/22

Istanbul

TK 1970

M

Tu

W

Th

F

Sa

Su

17:10

23:10

738

27/03/22 - 29/10/22

Arrivals:-

Istanbul

TK 1967

M

Tu

W

Th

F

Sa

Su

07:50

09:55

738

27/03/22 - 29/10/22

Istanbul

TK 1969

M

Tu

W

Th

F

Sa

Su

14:00

16:10

738

27/03/22 - 29/10/22

 

[pianokeys]

As of yesterday IndiGo are also code-sharing with Turkish to offer onward connections through IST to destinations in Europe inc. BHX.

Source: IndiGo website Press Releases.

 

[mullion]

I wonder if there will be some upgrades on aircraft as I know a lot of the BHX and MAN flights are pretty full

 

[Ray Finkle]

Quite a few A330 flights over the Christmas period and Feb school holidays.

 

[IanFarquharson]

16 upgrades to A330's and counting, at least one day there are 2 x A330
A flight this week had 75 PIA pax on, hopefully this will continue now we haver no direct ISB.
The Indigo deal should further boast loads which to be honest are already fantasic.

 

[Nethercote2019]

Great news & hats off to them as loads were not good when they started but they slowly improved

 

[IanFarquharson]

Great news & hats off to them as loads were not good when they started but they slowly improved

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