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Özgür Töre 23 February 2021 
SunExpress, a joint venture of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, has announced its 2021 summer flight plan.
- This summer, the airline will expand its flight network between Turkey and Europe by 23 new routes with 8 new destinations from Antalya and Izmir, including three major cities in the Middle East.
- SunExpress, which brings the most tourists to Turkey's Mediterranean and Aegean coasts with direct flights, is ready to support a rebound in Turkish tourism this summer.
- SunExpress CEO Max Kownatzki stated: “We are expecting to see a ramp-up in demand for
travel during the upcoming summer season: We believe that the widely applied vaccinations in many countries and easy availability of COVID-19 tests will be a driver for growth in tourism in the upcoming holiday season. This will enable all vacationers to travel more safely and will eventually lead to an increase in the number of European tourists visiting Turkey.”
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Kownatzki: Turkish tourism will shine
“Turkey has carried out many successful initiatives to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 since the very beginning. The ‘Safe Tourism’ program is one of the leading examples of the Turkish government's great contributions to Turkish tourism.
Depending on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout progress in Turkey and countries in our flight network, Turkish tourism will gain considerable momentum and emerge from this crisis stronger.
As a key contributor to the Turkish tourism industry, we are poised to foster this strong comeback.”
Flights to the Middle East to begin
Announcing that SunExpress will start flying to 23 new routes including 8 new destinations from Antalya and Izmir during the 2021 summer season, Kownatzki said: “This summer, we are opening up new markets as well as strengthening the already existing connections we have built between Turkey and Europe. We will connect Antalya and Izmir to several of the most visited cities in the Eastern European and Middle Eastern regions with direct flights.”
“We always listen to our passengers, and thanks to our dynamic and flexible organization, we put our focus on the destinations our passengers want the most. All our routes feature our safe travel and health initiatives to ensure a worry-free travel experience.”
23 new routes in 2021 Summer Season
SunExpress, which operates direct flights from Turkey to 27 countries and 52 destinations, will offer almost 6 million seats on international routes and 1.8 million seats on domestic routes in the upcoming summer season.
SunExpress will connect its main hub Antalya to 10 domestic and 40 international destinations in summer 2021, including 9 international and 2 domestic new routes:
| Antalya | |
| International | Domestic |
| Beirut New | Hatay New |
| Geneva New | Malatya New |
| Erbil New | |
| Chișinău New | |
| Ljubljana New | |
| London NewGatwick | |
| Manchester New | |
| Sofia New | |
| Tel Aviv New |
Connecting Izmir to 31 international and 14 domestic destinations in the upcoming summer season, SunExpress will offer 4 new international and 1 domestic flights from Izmir:
| Izmir | |
| International | Domestic |
| Beirut New | Bodrum New |
| Geneva New | |
| Kiev New | |
| Tel Aviv New |
Besides Antalya and Izmir, SunExpress, which connects 15 Anatolian cities including Bodrum and Dalaman with direct flights to numerous European cities, will start flying to 7 new routes from 5 different Anatolian cities in the 2021 summer season:
| Bodrum | Eskişehir | Hatay | Malatya | Zonguldak |
| Cologne/Bonn New | Brussels New | Dusseldorf New | Frankfurt New | Dusseldorf New |
| Vienna New | Dusseldorf New |
SunExpress – Wikipedia
Turkish airline
“Sun Express” redirects here. For the cargo ship attacked by Somali pirates, see MV Sun Express.
SunExpress
| XQ | SXS | SUNEXPRESS |
Founded1989Hubs
- İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport
Focus cities
- Antalya Airport
Frequent-flyer programSunExpress BonusFleet size58Destinations66Parent companyTurkish Airlines (50%) Lufthansa Group (50%)HeadquartersAntalya, TurkeyKey people
- Max Kownatzki, CEO
- Ahmet Fevzi Çalışkan, Deputy CEO
Employees5,000Websitewww.sunexpress.com
SunExpress, is a Turkish-German airline based in Antalya.[1] SunExpress was founded in October 1989 as a joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. It operates scheduled and chartered passenger flights to 90 destinations in 30 countries in Europe as well as North Africa, the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Red Sea.[2] The airline concentrates on international tourism, ethnic travel, and domestic Turkish flights to cities of Anatolia. The total number of SunExpress employees is 5,000.[citation needed]
History
SunExpress Boeing 737-800 in the old livery
SunExpress Boeing 737-800 in special livery to celebrate the 20th anniversary
SunExpress was founded in Antalya in October 1989 as a joint venture of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. Its first flight was in 1990.
SunExpress became the first private airline company to offer international scheduled flights from Turkey with its first Antalya-Frankfurt flight in 2001. SunExpress opened its second base in İzmir and started to operate domestic flights in 2006. With this launch, SunExpress became the first airline company to connect İzmir with Anatolian cities with direct flights in Turkey.
In May 2010, SunExpress took delivery of the first of six newly purchased Boeing 737-800s and launched its new corporate identity including its new logo, aircraft livery, new corporate colours, uniforms and visual identity elements.
SunExpress Deutschland GmbH was founded in 2011. The company started business operations in June 2011. Besides the Turkish destinations on the South Coast, on the Aegean, on the Black Sea and in the East of the country, it also serves – with German registration – destinations along the Mediterranean, Black Sea, North Africa and Red Sea.
SunExpress decided to invest in its building and SunExpress Plaza was built in June 2012. The new company building is environmental friendly, and is located in a natural setting. The architectural theme of the building is transparency and naturalness; therefore each room has been designed so that it has access to natural light and fresh air.
The sun is a source for clean energy inside the building. The solar panels on the roof generate enough electricity to supply power to all of the computers. On the exterior of the building, “smart” glass panels have been used to allow sun rays to shine inside the building while blocking out unwanted heat to help reduce cooling costs.
Orange, bergamot, and lemon trees have been planted in both the interior and exterior gardens. The building consists of 1 basement and 4 floors which house 250 SunExpress employees in 87 offices. There are several special category spaces incorporating meeting, briefing, training, storage, and various special operation rooms.
The building also hosts common archive room, a stationary flight simulator room and a general purpose auditorium.[citation needed]
On 23 June 2020, it has been announced that SunExpress' German subsidiary SunExpress Deutschland would cease operations and be liquidated.[3] Its route network would be partially taken over by SunExpress and Eurowings.[4]
Destinations
SunExpress serves the following destinations as of February 2021:[5]
| Austria | Vienna | Vienna International Airport | ||
| Belgium | Brussels | Brussels Airport | ||
| Bulgaria | Sofia | Sofia Airport | Seasonal | [6] |
| Czech Republic | Prague | Václav Havel Airport Prague | Seasonal | |
| Denmark | Aalborg | Aalborg Airport | Seasonal | |
| Billund | Billund Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Copenhagen | Copenhagen Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Finland | Helsinki | Helsinki Airport | Seasonal | |
| France | Lyon | Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport | Seasonal | |
| Marseille | Marseille Provence Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Paris | Charles de Gaulle Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Germany | Berlin | Berlin Brandenburg Airport | ||
| Bremen | Bremen Airport | |||
| Cologne/Bonn | Cologne Bonn Airport | |||
| Dortmund | Dortmund Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf Airport | |||
| Frankfurt | Frankfurt Airport | |||
| Hamburg | Hamburg Airport | |||
| Hanover | Hannover Airport | |||
| Leipzig/Halle | Leipzig/Halle Airport | |||
| Munich | Munich Airport | |||
| Münster/Osnabrück | Münster Osnabrück International Airport | |||
| Nuremberg | Nuremberg Airport | |||
| Saarbrücken | Saarbrücken Airport | |||
| Stuttgart | Stuttgart Airport | |||
| Hungary | Budapest | Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport | Seasonal | |
| Iraq | Erbil | Erbil International Airport | Seasonal | [7] |
| Israel | Tel Aviv | Ben Gurion Airport | Seasonal | [6] |
| Lebanon | Beirut | Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport | Seasonal | [6] |
| Moldova | Chișinău | Chișinău International Airport | Seasonal | [7] |
| Netherlands | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | ||
| Eindhoven | Eindhoven Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Norway | Oslo | Oslo Airport, Gardermoen | Seasonal | |
| Poland | Katowice | Katowice Airport | Seasonal | |
| Warsaw | Warsaw Chopin Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Russia | Saint Petersburg | Pulkovo Airport | Seasonal | [8] |
| Slovenia | Ljubljana | Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport | Seasonal | [6] |
| Sweden | Gothenburg | Göteborg Landvetter Airport | Seasonal | |
| Stockholm | Stockholm Arlanda Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Switzerland | Geneva | Geneva Airport | Seasonal | [7] |
| Zürich | Zürich Airport | |||
| SwitzerlandFranceGermany | BaselMulhouseFreiburg | EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg | ||
| Turkey | Adana | Adana Şakirpaşa Airport | ||
| Ankara | Esenboğa International Airport | |||
| Antalya | Antalya Airport | Focus city | ||
| Bodrum | Milas–Bodrum Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Dalaman | Dalaman Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Diyarbakır | Diyarbakır Airport | |||
| Elazığ | Elazığ Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Eskişehir | Hasan Polatkan Airport | Seasonal | ||
| Erzurum | Erzurum Airport | |||
| Gaziantep | Oğuzeli Airport | |||
| Hatay | Hatay Airport | |||
| Izmir | İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport | Hub | ||
| Kars | Kars Harakani Airport | |||
| Kayseri | Erkilet International Airport | |||
| Konya | Konya Airport | |||
| Malatya | Malatya Erhaç Airport | |||
| Samsun | Samsun-Çarşamba Airport | |||
| Trabzon | Trabzon Airport | |||
| Van | Van Ferit Melen Airport | |||
| Zonguldak | Zonguldak Airport | Seasonal | [7] | |
| Ukraine | Kyiv | Boryspil International Airport | Seasonal | [6] |
| United Kingdom | London | Luton Airport | Seasonal | |
| Gatwick Airport | Seasonal | [7] | ||
| Manchester | Manchester Airport | Seasonal | [7] |
Fleet
As of February 2021, the SunExpress fleet consists of the following aircraft:[9]
SunExpress Boeing 737-800
| Boeing 737-800 | 58 | — | 189 |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | — | 42[10][11][12] | TBA |
References
- ^ “Imprint.” SunExpress. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ “Company Profile”.
- ^ “aviation24.be”. Aviation24.be. 2020-06-23.
- ^ aerotelegraph.com (German) 23 June 2020
- ^ “Flight Connections Winter 2019/2020”. SunExpress.
Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Liu, Jim. “SunExpress S21 network additions as of 11OCT20”. Routesonline. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f “SunExpress Announces 2021 Summer Program”. ftnnews.com. 23 February 2021.
- ^ “SunExpress plans new routes in S18”. routesonline.com. 16 November 2017.
- ^ “Fleet”. sunexpress.com.
- ^ Perry, Dominic. “DUBAI: SunExpress tops up Max orders with 10-unit deal”. FlightGlobal. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ “SunExpress places order for 50 Boeing aircraft”. reuters.com. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
- ^ “Boeing Inks New Deal With SunExpress Worth Billions”. fool.com. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
External links
Media related to SunExpress at Wikimedia Commons
- SunExpress official website (in English)
Retrieved from “https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SunExpress&oldid=1041054177”
SunExpress — Википедия
«SunExpress»
Дата основания
1987
Базовые аэропорты
Анталья
Хабы
Международный аэропорт имени Сабихи Гёкчен Измир
Размер флота
47 (на июль 2021 года) [1]
Пунктов назначения
107
Материнская компания
Turkish Airlines[1] и Lufthansa Group[d][2]
Дочерние компании
SunExpress Deutschland[d]
Штаб-квартира
Стамбул, Турция
Руководство
Paul Schwaiger (Генеральный директор)
Число сотрудников
7000
Сайт
sunexpress.com
Медиафайлы на Викискладе
SunExpress (тур. Güneş Ekspres Havacılık A.Ş.) — авиакомпания, базирующаяся в Анталье, Турция. Она осуществляет регулярные и чартерные пассажирские авиаперевозки по Европе и Турции. Основная база — Аэропорт Антальи.
История
Авиакомпания была основана в октябре 1989 года и начала коммерческие перевозки в апреле следующего года чартерными полётами во Франкфурт-на-Майне (Западная Германия).
SunExpress была основана как совместное предприятие между Turkish Airlines и Lufthansa. В 1995 году Lufthansa передала свою долю SunExpress в авиакомпанию Condor Airlines с целью консолидации туристического бизнеса единый юнит.
В феврале 2007 года Condor Airlines возвратила свою долю в проекте назад компании Lufthansa.
Собственники SunExpress: 50% Turkish Airlines и 50% Lufthansa. Авиакомпания перевезла чуть более 2 млн 358 тысяч пассажиров в 2006 году. С 617 сотрудниками, 373 из которых — лётный состав и стюардессы, SunExpress является крупнейшим работодателем в Анталье. С учётом 181 человек в измирском и 23 — во франкфуртском офисах, SunExpress даёт работу в общей сложности 821 человеку.
SunExpress — единственная турецкая авикакомпания, прошедшая сертификацию по ISO 9001, ISO 14001 и Ohsas 18001.
Boeing 737-800 SunExpress приземляется во Франкфурте-на-Майне, Германия
Пункты назначения
На июнь 2017 SunExpress совершала полёты в следующие города[3]:
- Россия
- Москва — Жуковский
- Австрия
- Вена — Вена-Швехат
- Грац — Грац-Талерхоф
- Франция
- Мюлуз — EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
- Германия
- Берлин — Шёнефельд
- Берлин — Тегель
- Кёльн — Аэропорт Кёльн-Бонн
- Дортмунд — Дортмунд
- Дюссельдорф — Дюссельдорф
- Франкфурт-на-Майне — Франкфурт-на-Майне
- Гамбург — Гамбург
- Ганновер — Ганновер-Лангенхаген
- Мюнхен — Мюнхен
- Мюнстер — Мюнстер
- Нюрнберг — Нюрнберг
- Саарбрюккен — Саарбрюккен
- Штутгарт — Штутгарт
- Греция
- Афины — Афины
- Нидерланды
- Амстердам — Схипхол
- Норвегия
- Осло — Гардермуэн
- Швеция
- Стокгольм — Стокгольм-Арланда
- Швейцария
- Цюрих — Цюрих
- Турция
- Адана — Adana Şakirpaşa Airport
- Анталья — Анталья
- Бодрум — Milas-Bodrum Airport
- Диярбакыр — Diyarbakır Airport
- Эрзинджан — Erzincan Airport
- Эрзурум — Erzurum Airport
- Газиантеп — Oğuzeli Airport
- Хатай — Hatay Airport
- Стамбул — Международный аэропорт имени Сабихи Гёкчен
- Измир — Измир
- Карс — Kars Airport
- Кайсери — Erkilet International Airport
- Малатья — Malatya Erhaç Airport
- Мардин — Mardin Airport
- Самсун — Samsun-Çarşamba Airport
- Сивас — Sivas Airport
- Трабзон — Trabzon Airport
- Ван — Van Ferit Melen Airport
- Енишехир — Yenişehir Airport
Флот
В июле 2021 года флот SunExpress состоял из 47 самолетов, средний возраст которых 10,6 лет:
| Boeing 737-800 | 47 | 189 |
| Всего | 47 |
Примечания
- ↑ https://centreforaviation.com/data/profiles/airline-groups/turkish-airlines-group
- ↑ https://www.lufthansagroup.com/en/company/business-segments.html
- ↑ Route Network — Booking — SunExpress Airlines
Ссылки
- SunExpress (Англоязычная версия веб-сайта)
- Флот SunExpress
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