Turkish Airlines will introduce ‘five star service’ to Europe
Posted by meb at March 20th, 2007
Turkish Airlines (THY) has set course to transform itself into a five star airline company, such as Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, Qatar Airways and Singapore Airlines, which exists only in the Middle East and Far East countries.
In order to become a five star airline company THY will revise its catering service, personnel uniform and quality of service. “There are five star airline companies to the east of Turkey but in the West, there is none. We will bring five stars to Europe,” said THY President and CEO Temel Kotil, adding that they will also invest $3.5 billion for new planes.
Outlining their plans to procurement new aircraft, Kotil said: “THY grows by 25 percent every year but people think this is a small number. However, the 61 planes we bought were not enough and we are now planning to buy another 11 planes, eight Airbus 319s and three larger planes.” Although the state owns 49 percent of THY (the other 51 percent is held publicly), as far as the operations are concerned, “it is a private company,” Kotil said.
THY expects increase in 2007 air travel growth:
Explaining that he expected a good year for the tourism sector in 2007 and an increase in the number of tourists from 17 million in the previous year to 20 million this year, Kotil added: “The number of passengers used to decline in the February-March period and rise again in April. This year the decline did not take place. We are demonstrating a good growth.” Perhaps those passengers will be demanding more upscale accommodations on their flights — but that is for THY to decide.
source: Turkish Daily News
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