Turkish Airlines' New Boeing 777-300 ER Routes.

Turkish Airlines' New Boeing 777-300ER Routes.

Turkish Airlines currently has 23 Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft in its fleet and has many orders to be delivered until 2020. The 24th aircraft which is going to be the airline's 300th aircraft has been already painted and waiting for the delivery. 

Turkish Airlines' captain pilot Tanser Akinci has been assigned to accept the delivery within this week. The captain is now in Seattle and sending  the brand new aircraft photos to his followers during the final review schedule prior to delivery.




In addition to these new brand Boeing 777s, Turkish Airlines executives have reached an agreement with Kenya Airways to buy some additional Boeing 777s.


Airbus A330s are replaced with Boeing 777-300 ERs

The Airline will replace their Airbus a330-300 operations with Boeing 777-300 ERs. In the high-season; 

-Istanbul Ataturk - Delhi A330-330 operation will be replaced with Boeing 777.
-Istanbul Ataturk - Dubai A330-330 operation will be replaced with Boeing 777.

Turkish Airlines has 4 "prestige routes" which has call signs TK001, TK002, TK003 and TK004. These are the Airlines's first flight call signs. The routes have being operated by Airbus a333s and now will be replaced with Boeing 777s.

On Istanbul - Tokyo/Narita routes, Boeing 777-300 ERs had operated for long time after replacing old Airbus 340-300s. However, for more than 1 year, the Airline has been performing in this routes with A333s. It seems that the fleet schedule managers has changed their minds and had another decision to re-operate Boeing 777s in this route. THY has 2 daily flight to Tokyo Narita Airport from Istanbul Ataturk Airport.

The airlines' longest flight is İstanbul-Los Angeles currently. There are daily flights between Los Angeles and now the Airline has decided to increase the frequency to 11 weekly flights.  



New Route for Boeing 777-300 ER

Turkish Airline will initiate İstanbul Ataturk- Atlanta services from mid-May, 2016 operating by Boeing 777-300Ers. The airline has been heavily investing on USA route recently with enjoying Star Alliance partnership as well. 


Photo Sources: Airliners.net

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