Turkish Airlines (TK) will switch four daily Istanbul (IST) flights and one daily Antalya flight from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Vnukovo Airport (VKO) from March 25.
Star Alliance member Lufthansa has also announced the launch of flights to Vnukovo (ATW Daily News Nov. 23).
TK will launch 3X-weekly Boeing 737-800 IST Ataturk–Novosibirsk (OVB) service March 14, making OVB TK’s eighth Russian destination.
CEO Temel Kotil recently told ATW that TK is targeting 38 million passengers for 2012 and $8 billion. TK continues to increase its European traffic and grow its “important markets like Russia or Ukraine,” he said.
Despite the weak economic outlook in Europe, Kotil remains confident. “Actually everybody is worrying about poor income. Our income is mostly in euro currency and that hurt us as well. Other carriers [are] cutting service, that helps us to balance. Like in 2006 or 2008, many airlines had problems. When others (airlines) reduce[d] services, we also made a profit. There will be no crises for us.”
During the first 11 months of 2011, passengers carried rose 11.7% on the year-ago period to 30 million (ATW Daily News, Dec. 19, 2011). Kotil said ASKs should grow in 2012 by 20%, as well 20% in terms of passenger numbers, “but we have to work hard in 2012.”
source: http://atwonline.com/airports-routes/news/turkish-switches-moscow-flights-vnukovo-targets-38-million-passengers-2012-0106
Star Alliance member Lufthansa has also announced the launch of flights to Vnukovo (ATW Daily News Nov. 23).
TK will launch 3X-weekly Boeing 737-800 IST Ataturk–Novosibirsk (OVB) service March 14, making OVB TK’s eighth Russian destination.
CEO Temel Kotil recently told ATW that TK is targeting 38 million passengers for 2012 and $8 billion. TK continues to increase its European traffic and grow its “important markets like Russia or Ukraine,” he said.
Despite the weak economic outlook in Europe, Kotil remains confident. “Actually everybody is worrying about poor income. Our income is mostly in euro currency and that hurt us as well. Other carriers [are] cutting service, that helps us to balance. Like in 2006 or 2008, many airlines had problems. When others (airlines) reduce[d] services, we also made a profit. There will be no crises for us.”
During the first 11 months of 2011, passengers carried rose 11.7% on the year-ago period to 30 million (ATW Daily News, Dec. 19, 2011). Kotil said ASKs should grow in 2012 by 20%, as well 20% in terms of passenger numbers, “but we have to work hard in 2012.”
source: http://atwonline.com/airports-routes/news/turkish-switches-moscow-flights-vnukovo-targets-38-million-passengers-2012-0106
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