Charter partnership: airberlin Turkey starts on 1st November 2011
Winter flight schedule includes flights to Antalya from up to 14 German citiesSummer schedule being planned ? more airports will be addedOn 1st November 2011, airberlin Turkey will begin operating flights between Antalya and Germany. With the start of the winter flight schedule, airberlin and the Turkish airline company Pegasus will embark on a charter partnership and dedicate two Boeings of the type 737-800 to transporting holiday makers from Germany to Antalya. The airplanes carry their own logo, featuring the word "Turkey" in cursive above the airberlin script.
After holidaying in Turkey, the first passengers flying airberlin Turkey will take off from Antalya and land in Stuttgart on the morning of 1st November 2011. Additional airports for the charter flights include Bremen, Dќsseldorf, Frankfurt, Leipzig/Halle, Nuremberg and Paderborn. Overall, over the winter months, airberlin Turkey will transport vacationers from up to 14 German cities to the Turkish Riviera, up to 31 times a week.
As Detlef Altmann, airberlin's Director of Tourism Marketing, stated: "With airberlin Turkey, we are bringing a product to market that positions us very strongly on the Turkish tourism market. Furthermore, with airberlin Turkey, we are now, for the first time, including flights to Turkey in our winter flight schedule.? Mr. Altmann added: "airberlin Turkey will continue to fly in the coming summer. We are planning to operate up to six airplanes by then."
?Pegasus and airberlin are taking another important step towards a deeper cooperation after the code share flights started in September. We will join our forces on Antalya - Germany market and thus this synergy will enable us to increase both the destinations flown and the flight frequencies on this market, providing more alternatives to our customers and at the same time contributing to the tourism traffic between Turkey and Germany?, said Guliz Ozturk, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing of Pegasus.
The additional airports from which airberlin Turkey will be taking off are Berlin, Dresden, Cologne/Bonn, Mќnster/Osnabrќck, Hanover, Hamburg and Munich. The summer schedule for 2012 is currently in planning. Further additional airports - such as Erfurt - will be included. The on-board service as well as the interior design of the fleet will not differ from that of airberlin. Seats are primarily sold via tour operators, only a few seats will be available for individual booking. In addition to the charter partnership, airberlin and Pegasus have been in a marketing and distribution partnership since 2009. Both airlines have been operating codeshare flights on selected routes since September 2011.
About airberlin:airberlin is Germany's second largest airline. The company has a workforce of 8,900 employees. In 2010 alone, airberlin received over 10 awards for service and quality. The fleet comprises 168 aircraft with an average age of five years, making it one of the most modern fleets in Europe. The airline's state-of-the-art jets are highly fuel efficient, which contributes toward a long-term reduction in pollution emissions from aircraft. As one of the major European airlines, airberlin flies to 163 destinations in 39 countries. In 2010, the airline carried 33.6 million passengers. airberlin has signed up for membership to the global airline alliance oneworldЎ and is expected to become a full member at the start of 2012. airberlin operates codeshare flights with the oneworld members American Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Malщv and S7.
About Pegasus:Pegasus Airlines was founded in 1990 and began its first domestic scheduled flights on 1 November 2005, creating and implementing Turkey?s first full low-cost airline strategy. By selecting Sabiha Gokcen Airport to be its principal airport and hub, Pegasus Airlines introduced the Turkish public to easy, comfortable and low-cost flying. Pegasus Airlines flew 8.6 million guests in 2010 and has a fleet size of 39 aircraft, including its sister airline Izair. Pegasus Airlines has Turkey?s youngest fleet, with the average age of the Next-Generation Boeing 737-800s at 2.40 years. Pegasus Airlines flies a scheduled service to 19 destinations in Turkey and 29 international destinations from Turkey, all available for booking online at www.flypgs.com.
Date modified:
27.10.2011