Turkish Airlines

Airline Code: TK

About Turkish Airlines:
The airline was established on May 20, 1933, as the State Airlines Administration – DHY - Devlet Hava Yolları İşletmesi İdaresi. It began operations with an İstanbul--Eskişehir--Ankara service in August 1933. In September 1937, the airline received three De Havilland D.H. 86B biplane airliners.

The following December, DHY received its fourth aircraft. The growing air fleet allowed DHY to extend the domestic network to Izmir, Adana, Kayseri and Diyarbakır. The name was changed to Devlet Hava Yolları Umum Müdürlüğü (DHY) in June 1938. The first international flight was launched in 1947 to Athens but it was another 40 years before the introduction of long-haul flights to the Far East and across the North Atlantic.

In a major reorganisation, the state company DHY was replaced with the mixed corporation THY - Türk Hava Yolları AO on February 20, 1956. The airline's shares were passed to the Public Participation Administration in 1990, which took the company public in December of that year by selling 5% of the shares. The government later sold about 23.0% of the shares to the public in December 2004, and a further 28.75% in May 2006.

Turkish Airlines Major Hubs:
Atatürk International Airport

Alliance: Star Alliance

Codeshare Agreements:

Aircraft Type:
Airbus A310-300, A310-300F
Boeing 737-400, 777-300ER

Fleet Size: 130 (+4 on order)

No. of Destinations: 148 (32 dom + 116 intl)

Airline was founded in: 1933