Turkish Airlines is the airline that carries the national of Turkey. Its headquarters are situated at the Turkish Airlines General Management Building on the Atatürk Airport in Yeşilköy, Bakırköy, and Istanbul. The airline operates and offers its services to two hundred and ninety destinations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. This has made it the fourth-largest carrier in the world by number of destinations which it started in the year 2014. It is said to serve more destinations non-stop from a single airport than any other airline in Europe. Turkish Airlines also flies to one hundred and fifteen countries. It also has an operational fleet of ten cargo aircraft which gives the airline 's cargo capacity to serve fifty two …show more content…
When a new government came to power in 1983, it began the airline 's makeover into a modern operation. Its aim was to maintain one of the youngest fleets in the world. It recognized the role that the airline played as a Turkey ambassador to the world. Security was intensified and this saw less delays and hijackings of the planes. By the mid-1980s the fleet started was flying close to three million passengers. Turkish Airlines eventually became the number one source of foreign currency in the country.
Just like any other business the airlines has seen a number of ups and downs throughout the years. In 2001 for example, they underwent an economic crisis like most business did because of the economic crisis that was experienced in the world. In 2003 things were also bad as they had to close some of their routes because of the war in Iraq. New competitors were also a challenge because the market became so stiff. It was publicly traded off and the government still owns about 98% of its shares .In 2016 there was the Turkish coup d 'état attempt. This led to the banning of flights between Turkey and USA by the Federal Aviation Authority . This posed a major challenge for Turkish Airlines because the airline’s major strategy was to deliver one-stop journeys between the USA and hard-to-reach destinations
This paper will give a historical overview of the company, discuss the ingredients to the company success, offer some financial strengths and present a final conclusion. Section I: Southwest's History Twenty-seven years ago, Rollin King, a San Antonio entrepreneur who owned a small commuter air service, and Kelleher, who was a lawyer at the time, got together and decided to start a different kind of airline. They began with one simple notion. If you get your passengers to their destinations when they want to get there, on time, at the lowest possible fares, and make certain they have a good time doing it, people will fly your airline. And you know what? They were right. Within those 27 years, Southwest Airlines became the fifth largest major airline in America. Today, they have flown over 50 million passengers a year to 54 cities all over the southwest and beyond. They do it over 2,300 times a day with over 267 of the newest jets in the nation and fly only one type aircraft; the B-737. The average age of their fleet is only 8.4 years and they own over sixty percent of them. In May 1988, they were the first airline to win the coveted U.S. Department of Transportation Triple Crown for a month - Best On-time Record, Best Baggage Handling, and Fewest Customer Complaints. Since then, they've won it
While it is difficult, to some extent, to evaluate the success of a merger that is only just now entering its final implementation phases, it is known that the objective of that merger was to use the larger route network to attract more business, and that the combined airline would also extract cost savings as the result of increased operational efficiency. The airline had struggled in 2009, with its sales declining, but it recovered in 2010 and 2011. Sales last year were $33.678 billion, up from $21.068 billion the year before. In the past two years, the company has turned a profit, going from $253 million in net income in FY2010 to $840 million in net income in FY2011. Some of this improvement may stem from the impact of the merger. However, the airline industry is highly cyclical, and the past two years have represented economic improvement. Likewise, the losses the company faced in FY2008 and FY2009 were as much the result of the economic downturn as they were internal business factors.
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They have been in the media twice in a matter of two weeks for different scandals. People have taken to social media to create hashtags and posts bashing the airline for their behavior and expressing their thoughts and disbelief for how they treat their customers. This is going to affect the company's image if not for a while, forever. To this day, people are still talking about the Dave Carroll incident, so after these two recent scandals and the way the airline handled them, they will be loosing a good chunk of their
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