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{"source_url": "https://www.dailysabah.com", "url": "https://www.dailysabah.com/tourism/2020/01/01/turkish-airlines-expands-fleet-opens-4-new-routes-in-2020", "title": "Turkish Airlines expands fleet, opens 4 new routes in 2020", "top_image": "https://iadsb.tmgrup.com.tr/f5ab51/645/344/0/102/1000/636?u=https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/2020/01/01/1577870141295.jpg", "meta_img": "https://iadsb.tmgrup.com.tr/f5ab51/645/344/0/102/1000/636?u=https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/2020/01/01/1577870141295.jpg", "images": ["https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=312463015800055&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://iadsb.tmgrup.com.tr/720c0b/200/134/126/0/918/531?u=https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/2019/12/31/1577793341240.jpg", "https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/site/v1/i/daily-sabah-kategori-logo.svg?v0.2", "https://iadsb.tmgrup.com.tr/f5ab51/645/344/0/102/1000/636?u=https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/2020/01/01/1577870141295.jpg", "https://analytics.twitter.com/i/adsct?txn_id=nu4qb&p_id=Twitter&tw_sale_amount=0&tw_order_quantity=0", "https://t.co/i/adsct?txn_id=nu4qb&p_id=Twitter&tw_sale_amount=0&tw_order_quantity=0", "https://iadsb.tmgrup.com.tr/fcc92d/200/134/0/66/1000/736?u=https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/2019/12/30/1577715359661.jpg", "https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/site/v1/i/daily-sabah-logo.svg"], "movies": [], "text": "In 2020, Turkish Airlines will expand and update its fleet, opening four new flight paths, according to the chairman of Turkey's flag carrier.\n\n\n\n\"We have completed all the necessary procedures to launch flights to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Tokyo's Haneda Airport, Newark, New Jersey, and Vancouver, Canada in 2019,\" said \u0130lker Ayc\u0131, adding that now they are just waiting for the required permits. Besides the latest batch of new destinations, he said the airline would also focus on frequency depth.\n\nAfter launching services to 10 new international routes in 2019, the carrier closed the year with a flight network including 318 cities across 126 countries, Ayc\u0131 noted.\n\nRecalling the airlines' switch from Atat\u00fcrk Airport to Istanbul's new mega-airport as the company's biggest move in 2019, Ayc\u0131 said: \"Turkish Airlines has to have a strong infrastructure, one supporting its growth, in order to achieve its goals without interruption.\"\n\nIstanbul Airport, the \"World's New Hub,\" officially opened on Oct. 29, 2018, the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic. With the capacity to serve some 200 million passengers per year and with all four phases and six runways to be completed by 2028, Istanbul Airport is set to become a global aviation hub home to more than 100 airlines flying to over 300 destinations around the world.\n\nUnderlining that the airline had reached full capacity shortly after moving to the mega-airport, Ayc\u0131 said: \"Our new home knocked both ourselves and our customers out of the usual routine, but here we learned to walk again, putting aside all our old assumptions.\"\n\nWhile Atat\u00fcrk Airport fell short of responding to Turkish Airlines' need for more slots and capacity due to constraints such as runway insufficiency, the company now presides over a larger operational space thanks to Istanbul Airport, Ayc\u0131 said. \"The third runway to open at Istanbul Airport in 2020 will ease the traffic density,\" Ayc\u0131 added. When the third runway goes live, it will be possible to do an aircraft landing and takeoff every 43 seconds, or more than 2,000 planes a day, he added.\n\nTurkish Airlines is continuing to expand its fleet with next-generation aircraft while replacing older models, Ayc\u0131 said. By the end of 2019, the airline had 351 aircraft, including 98 wide-body, 229 narrow-body and 24 cargo planes, up from 332 at the beginning of the year. \"With our current fleet size, we rank 10th among the passenger airlines globally,\" Ayc\u0131 said. \"Among the top 10, we have the fourth-youngest fleet.\" He added that 28 more aircraft will be added to the fleet in 2020, stressing that the company is open to rental options.\n\nCapacity rising\n\nDespite having to ground Boeing 737 Max aircraft and a delay in the delivery of the A321 Neo aircraft, Turkish Airlines posted a 2.7% rise in its capacity between January and November 2019, Ayc\u0131 noted. This came despite 12 planes from the fleet being grounded and 12 more aircraft's delivery being delayed, he explained.\n\nBoeing's top-selling 737 Max was grounded worldwide after crashes which killed hundreds of people and cost the company billions of dollars. On Tuesday, Turkish Airlines announced that Boeing had agreed to compensate it for losses caused by the grounded and undelivered planes. \"Boeing will cover some of our losses and the revenue that we cannot generate because of aircraft being grounded and out of use,\" the carrier said in a statement.\n\nIn the first 11 months of 2019, the flag carrier served 68.8 million passengers. \"Despite an 11.5% contraction in the domestic market in Turkey, we welcomed 28.3 million passengers taking domestic flights, boosting our market share by 2.5 points,\" Ayc\u0131 said. The number of passengers carried on international flights rose 3.5% to 40.4 million, he underlined.\n\nTurkish Airlines has 15 subsidiaries and joint ventures including Turkish Technic, Turkish Cargo, Turkish Ground Services, Turkish Opet Aviation Fuels and Sun Express. Touching on Turkish Cargo's operations, Ayc\u0131 said the company had kept growing despite the global air cargo sector shrinking by 3.5%.\n\n\"Despite these unfavorable market conditions and having to carry out our cargo operations at two different airports, we posted an increase of 9.5% in cargo volume to 1.4 million tons,\" Ayc\u0131 stressed. 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