Corendon Airlines

Corendon Airlines (incorporated as Turistik Hava Taşımacılık A.Ş.) is a Turkish leisure airline headquartered in Antalya and based at Antalya Airport.

Corendon Airlines
IATA ICAO Callsign
XC CAI CORENDON
FoundedNovember 2004
Operating bases
Fleet size14
Destinations128
Parent companyCorendon Group
HeadquartersAntalya, Turkey
Key people
  • Yildiray Karaer (CEO)
  • Atilay Uslu (Chairman)
Websitecorendonairlines.com

History

The airline was founded in 2004 with flight operations starting in April 2005. Flight hours per year grew from 6,200 in 2005 to 30,000 in 2013. Passengers carried totalled 220,000 in 2005, 930,000 in 2010 and 2,000,000 in 2013. 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

As of March 2019, Corendon Airlines operates scheduled flights from its base at Antalya Airport to 20 cities in Germany and Switzerland. It also operates seasonal charter flights to Iran in Asia and more destinations throughout Europe. They are also starting weekly flights to Manchester from Dalaman in 2020.

Fleet
A Corendon Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8
A Corendon Airlines Boeing 737-800 wearing the Detur livery.

The Corendon Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft as of December 2019.[3]

Aircraft In service Orders Passengers Notes[4]
Boeing 737-800 13 — 189
Boeing 737 MAX 8 1 5 189 Grounded due to worldwide Boeing 737 Max groundings.
Boeing 737 MAX 9 - 2 -
Total 14 7

Accidents and incidents

In 2012 Corendon Airlines Flight 733, a Boeing 737-800 operating Antalya-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.[5]

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References
  1. "Corendon Airlines Starts Izmir Flights in 2019 Season". www.corendonairlines.com (Press release).
  2. "Corporate". corendonairlines.com. 2019-03-24.
  3. "Corendon Airlines Fleet". corendonairlines.com.
  4. ""Boeing, 737 MAX adını kullanmayabilir"". Haber Aero | Havacılık, Turizm ve Seyahat (in Turkish). 2020-01-09. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  5. "A Boeing 737-8KN (WL) passenger plane, TC-TJK, sustained substantial fire damage to the cockpit at Antalya Airport (AYT), Turkey".

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