Corendon Airlines
Corendon Airlines (incorporated as Turistik Hava Taşımacılık A.Ş.) is a Turkish leisure airline headquartered in Antalya and based at Antalya Airport.
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Founded | November 2004 | ||||||
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Fleet size | 23 | ||||||
Destinations | 145 | ||||||
Parent company | Corendon Tourism Group | ||||||
Headquarters | Antalya, Turkey | ||||||
Key people | Yildiray Karaer (CEO) Atilay Uslu (Chairman) | ||||||
Website | corendonairlines.com |
Corendon Airlines is a part of Corendon Tourism Group.
History
Corendon Airlines, founded in 2004 with flight operations starting in April 2005, is an international airline transporting approximately 6 million travelers each year. The Dutch sister company Corendon Dutch Airlines was founded in 2011 and the Maltese sister company Corendon Airlines Europe was founded in 2017.[2]
Destinations
Corendon Airlines operates flights from 145 airport in more than 40 countries majorly Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Israel, Egypt, Spain, Italy, France, Czechia, Romania and Scandinavian countries with full charter, split charter, sub charter and wet lease business models.
Corendon Airlines uses many airports to base its aircraft in many countries. Besides Antalya, Izmir and Kayseri in Turkey, the airline bases aircraft in Hannover, Cologne, Munster and Nurnberg in Germany. In the year of 2021, Corendon Airlines is adding two new European bases: Dusseldorf in Germany and Basel in Switzerland.
Fleet
The Corendon Airlines current fleet consists of the following aircraft as of October 2020:[3]
Aircraft | In service | Passengers | Notes | |
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Boeing 737-800 | 23 | 189 | ||
Boeing 737 MAX 8 | 1 | 189 | ||
Total | 24 |
Accidents and incidents
On 14 October 2012 Corendon Airlines Flight 733, a Boeing 737-800 operating between Antalya and Trondheim on a scheduled passenger flight, suffered a hull loss after the plane caught fire during pushback from the gate. 27 passengers were injured during the evacuation. The cause was determined to be a short circuit in the captain's cockpit panel near an oxygen tank.[4]
References
- "Corendon Airlines Starts Izmir Flights in 2019 Season". www.corendonairlines.com (Press release).
- "Corporate". corendonairlines.com. 2019-03-24.
- "Corendon Airlines Fleet". corendonairlines.com.
- "A Boeing 737-8KN (WL) passenger plane, TC-TJK, sustained substantial fire damage to the cockpit at Antalya Airport (AYT), Turkey".