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The main airline of Turkey with its subsidiary Turkish Cargo will start flights to Quito this year 2018, as detailed by the airline in a statement published on 8 May with Airbus A330-200F or Boeing 777-200F aircraft.
Great news for the Ecuadorian export and import market has been announced and a new airline will join the family of cargo airlines that operate regularly at Quito airport.
In an official statement published on the website of Turkish Cargo, it was known that thanks to the sustained and growing development of the airline, This has started a new international expansion, where Quito has been considered as a new destination for the end of this year.
Apart from Quito, also during this 2018 cargo airline plans to start flights to Taipei, Miami, Toronto, Zaragoza, Houston, Bogota, , Brussels, Muscat, Mexico, Tokyo, Abu Dhabi (UAE), Addis Ababa and others worldwide.
About Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines (THERE IT IS: TK, ICAO: THY) was founded on 20 May 1933 (84 years of existence) and its main airport of operations is located at the Atatürk International Airport from where it flies to more than 302 national and international destinations in 121 countries, It is the airline that flies to the most countries in the world.
Its huge fleet is made up of 327 planes, of which 14 They are exclusive of their own cargo and others 4 operate for the airline in wet lease mode.
The cargo fleet is made up of an Airbus A300-600F (temporary lease), tres Airbus A310-300F, nueve Airbus A330-200F (one more to deliver), tres Boeing 747F (temporary lease) and two Boeing 777-200F (3 more to deliver).
Con la filial de carga la aerolínea llega a 85 destinations in the world. during february, the airline achieved sales of more than 55.614 tons of cargo, which represents an increase in 37.8% compared to the previous year and ranked fifth internationally in the ranking of cargo airlines.
The cargo market for the airline grew a 52% between 2016 and 2017 and make it one of the fastest growing companies in the segment.
Turkish Cargo operation in Ecuador
It should be noted that the airline has not yet started the corresponding process for requesting regular operation before the National Civil Aviation Council of Ecuador. – CNAC and the number of weekly flights with which it will operate is still unknown.
It is more than likely that the flights have 2 or more intermediate stopovers before arriving in Ecuador, in order to make the route profitable, leaving and picking up cargo at each stop, success of the cargo operation in South America and the flights could come from Miami or New York to later continue via Bogotá back to Europe.
Equally, the aircraft to be operated is still held in reserve, but we can speculate that it will be with Airbus A330F and/or the newer Boeing 777F aircraft, almost ruling out the operation for autonomy of the Airbus A300 and for being a temporary operation for the Boeing 747F that will be replaced by the 4 planes still pending delivery.
We will continue to report the details and details of this new airline in Ecuador.
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