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2006
SUNEXPRESS SunExpress Aviation Inc.
TURKISH TECHNIC Turkish Technic Inc.
SunExpress conducts tourism transport activities as the market leader in flights between Türkiye and Central Europe. Established in 1989 as a 50-50 partnership between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, SunExpress is headquartered in Antalya. SunExpress executed its first flight in 1990. After operating for many years in the charter market, SunExpress initiated Antalya-Frankfurt flights in 2001, becoming Türkiye’s first private airline to organize scheduled flights abroad. SunExpress was named “Europe’s Best Leisure Airline” in 2023 by Skytrax, the international air transport rating agency. SunExpress also received the “Regional Airline of the Year” award at the CAPA Aviation Excellence 2023 Awards. SunExpress connects 95 destinations, 30 of which are in Türkiye, with scheduled and charter flights. With a fleet of 62 aircraft as of the end of 2023, the airline operates 239 routes in 46 countries with 3,805 employees.
Turkish Technic was established in 2006 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Turkish Airlines Inc. and merged with Turkish Airlines HABOM Inc. in June 2015. Turkish Technic is one of the world’s largest aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul centers in the air transport sector with 10,522 employees and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2023. After its relocation to Istanbul Airport in 2019, Turkish Technic became the first and only company to offer all maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) services from a single point to many domestic and foreign airlines, especially Turkish Airlines. To increase the number of foreign airlines it serves and its market share, Turkish Technic operates in its hangars located at five different airports in Ankara, Aydın, and Istanbul (Atatürk, Istanbul, and Sabiha Gökçen Airports).
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