SunExpress

• Istanbul- Sabiha Gökçen
• İzmir

SunExpress (actually SunExpress Güneş Ekspress Havacilik A.Ş. ) is a Turkish low-cost airline based in Antalya and bases at the airports Antalya, Istanbul- Sabiha Gökçen and İzmir.

She also maintains a subsidiary, SunExpress Germany.

History

SunExpress was founded in 1989 as a joint venture of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Turkish Airlines, initially with a Boeing 737-300 and 64 employees. In 1995, the Lufthansa Group transferred its 50 percent stake in Condor to bundle all tourist flights under one roof, then took it over but in February 2007 as part of an exchange of shares in the takeover of the Condor by the Thomas Cook Group back.

Since 2001 SunExpress operates in addition to the charter flights to holiday destinations scheduled flights to and between destinations in Turkey.

In 2012, the airline recorded 7.65 million passengers and thus achieved in comparison to 2011, a decline of 1.0 percent.

In spring 2010, SunExpress introduced a new corporate design, which includes, among other things, a new logo and a new paint job the aircraft. The first aircraft received by 16 April 2010, a Boeing 737-800, the new color scheme. SunExpress is since the 2010/11 season jersey sponsor of the Turkish first division club Antalyaspor and is new for the coming season 2012/13 Band Advertisement in eight Bundesliga soccer stadiums in Germany.

Since June 8, 2011 SunExpress operates with Sun Express Germany a German subsidiary, which has its own operating license and its own fleet. Your IATA code reads differently from the parent company XG, the ICAO code SXD. The external appearance and the marketing carried out jointly.

In spring 2012, the German seat of SunExpress Kelsterbach moved to Gateway Gardens directly to the Frankfurt am Main airport.

Destinations

In the winter timetable 2013/14 from 19 SunExpress German airports and many more in Europe to their two turntables Antalya and Izmir. Overall, the airline offers 500 weekly flights between Europe and Turkey, as well as within the Turkish transport. Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Cologne -Bonn, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart with Egypt, Palma de Mallorca and the Canary Islands (Tenerife, La Palma, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura ): In addition, the subsidiary SunExpress Germany on behalf of SunExpress connects. Among the Egyptian destinations are located in Marsa Alam, Hurghada, Luxor, Taba and Sharm el Sheikh. Another novelty in the winter is the link to Alanya which each 1x a week (except Dusseldorf ) of Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Leipzig / Halle is operated. SunExpress operates with travel companies like allroute, Classic Tours, Clever Tours, ECCO travel, ETI Travel Express International, FEFA travel, FTI / BigXtra, H & H Tours, JT Touristik, LMX tourism, REWE Touristik, OFT Reisen, Phoenix Travel, Sky Seats, schauinsland Travel, Thomas Cook / Oger Tours, 5vor flight, TUI and mouflon & jack tourism together.

Fleet

As of February 2014, the fleet of 56 aircraft consists of SunExpress with an average age of 8.4 years:

Other aircraft will be operated by SunExpress Germany under their own license.