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NewsSunExpress to expand SAA damp-lease deal to four aircraft
Turkish leisure carrier SunExpress has signed a memorandum of understanding to double the number of aircraft it damp-leases to South African Airways for the winter 2024-2025 season.
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PodcastAirline Business Podcast: Widebody wins in Dubai and air cargo's turbulent descent
In the latest instalment of the Airline Business Podcast – sponsored by Panasonic Avionics – Graham and Lewis discuss the aircraft orders placed at this year’s Dubai air show and what they might mean for capacity growth in the region, particularly when it comes to widebody jets.
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InterviewSunExpress chief on how carrier is stepping up in scale with new Max 10 order
SunExpress’ introduction of larger Boeing 737-10s as part of its new long-term follow-on order for Max jets underlines chief executive Max Kownatzki’s confidence the leisure carrier can continue to ride the Turkish boom which has seen it perform so strongly since the Covid pandemic.
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NewsSunExpress orders up to 90 more 737s including first Max 10s
Fast-growing Turkish joint-venture leisure carrier SunExpress has placed an order for 45 Boeing 737 Max jets for delivery from 2029, together with options and purchase rights on 45 more.
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InterviewHow Max Kownatzki led SunExpress back to profit and on to 737 Max-driven growth
Despite having had little time to settle at SunExpress before Covid-19 arrived, Max Kownatzki has ensured the Turkish leisure carrier is raring to go as the crisis abates
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NewsRestructured Eurowings leads profit recovery for Lufthansa passenger units
Lufthansa Group chief executive Carsten Spohr believes the Covid crisis has accelerated the recovery of Eurowings, the low-cost unit it now expects to continue in profit after reaching that milestone in the third quarter.
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NewsTurkey’s SunExpress to axe German airline operation
German-Turkish leisure carrier SunExpress is shutting its German division as part of a revamp of its operations which includes concentrating on its core business. Although SunExpress has gradually resumed flights since 1 June, restoring both domestic and international services, it says the coronavirus crisis “hit hard” during April and May. ...
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NewsTurkish Airlines still facing bottleneck for single-aisle deliveries
Turkish Airlines is expecting to have 26 Airbus A321neos in its fleet by the end of this year, rather than the 30 it had listed in its previous update. The company has outlined its fleet development schedule in a full-year results briefing. While 13 A321neos were supposed to be delivered ...
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AnalysisDubai air show Order Tracker
It means the show ends with 298 order commitment announcements - less than half the level of deals announced two years ago, even if the Emirates tentative deal for 40 787-10s is stripped out of the 2017 figures. The majority, 231 aircraft, are firm orders - though many represent the ...
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NewsSunExpress tops up Max orders with 10-unit deal
German-Turkish joint venture SunExpress has firmed 10 options for the 737 Max 8, taking to 42 its total orders for the troubled narrowbody.
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News
PICTURE: SunExpress to wet-lease 11 A320s
Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa’s joint venture SunExpress has increased the number of Airbus A320s it is to wet-lease from Lithuanian operator Avion from five to 11.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Customers impel airline distribution towards NDC
The narrative around innovation in distribution has often focused on the perceived battle lines between the airline industry – backed by IATA's NDC capability – and the legacy GDS providers.
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Opinion
OPINION: Lessors will be lenders of last resort in Turkey
Turkey is in the midst of a currency crisis as the lira continues to devalue. On 7 August the Turkish currency took a nosedive, falling 30% against the dollar.
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SunExpress to roll out IFE across 737 fleet
SunExpress is to equip its entire Boeing 737 fleet with Immfly's in-flight entertainment system.
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SunExpress opted against more UK services because of Brexit
Leisure carrier SunExpress considered launching UK services but opted not to because of the uncertainty created by the UK's impending departure from the EU.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How airlines alter tourist capacity after terror events
The terror incidents in and around Barcelona in mid-August left another of the region's destinations reeling from attacks targeted at locations popular with tourists.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Europe's leisure carriers fight over tight market
Leisure carriers in Europe have not been short of challenges over the past 12 months. Already adjusting to falls in demand to North African destinations, further tourism hotspots have been hit by damaging geopolitical events. On top of that, the Brussels and Istanbul airport terror attacks highlighted the vulnerability of ...
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SunExpress picks Air France-KLM's technical arm for CF6 support
Air France-KLM's maintenance division has won an engine MRO contract from SunExpress, the leisure joint venture between Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airlines still cautious on return to Egypt
Though the hijacking of an EgyptAir Airbus A320 on 29 March appears not to have been a terrorism-related incident, it can only intensify concerns about Egyptian airport security – five months after the MetroJet A321 crash – and the challenges in rebuilding the North African nation's reputation as a tourist ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: LCCs continue to blur the lines with charter operators
Long-held assumptions that the rise of the European low-cost carriers would lead to the death of the package charter business look ever less convincing these days.