Greenair

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Greenair
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IATA ICAO Callsign
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Foundedc.1989-1990 [1]
Ceased operations1996
Fleet size5 [2]
Greenair Tupolev Tu-154, Dusseldorf, 1993 Greenair Tupolev Tu-154M KvW.jpg
Greenair Tupolev Tu-154, Düsseldorf, 1993

Greenair was a charter airline based in Turkey. [3] It was a Turkish-Soviet (or Turkish-Russian) [4] joint venture. [5] [6] Around late 1990, it was the largest private sector airline in Turkey. [1]

Turkey Republic in Western Asia

Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. East Thrace, located in Europe, is separated from Anatolia by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorous strait and the Dardanelles. Turkey is bordered by Greece and Bulgaria to its northwest; Georgia to its northeast; Armenia, the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the south. Istanbul is the largest city, but more central Ankara is the capital. Approximately 70 to 80 per cent of the country's citizens identify as Turkish. Kurds are the largest minority; the size of the Kurdish population is a subject of dispute with estimates placing the figure at anywhere from 12 to 25 per cent of the population.

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Tupolev Tu-154M in Active Air livery, Luxembourg, 1995 Tupolev Tu-154M, Active Air AN0062613.jpg
Tupolev Tu-154M in Active Air livery, Luxembourg, 1995
Greenair Ilyushin Il-86 in Aeroflot livery, Dusseldorf, 1991 Greenair Ilyushin Il-86 von Wedelstaedt.jpg
Greenair Ilyushin Il-86 in Aeroflot livery, Düsseldorf, 1991

Company history

Greenair was founded c.1989-90 to fly Turkish expatriate workers and tourists from destinations in Germany and Paris, London, Milan and Amsterdam to Turkey. [7] [1] Its first flight was on 18 May 1990. [1] By the end of the year, it had become the largest private sector airline in Turkey. [1]

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As of 1993, Greenair flew to Turkey from more than a dozen European cities, [3] and also offered internal flights including a daily service between Antalya and Istanbul. [4] By 1994, it was competing directly with the national flag carrier, Turk Hava Yollari, on charter and scheduled routes. [8]

Greenair had planned use its Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft on scheduled services between Istanbul and Moscow; but those plans could not be carried out. [7] In December 1994 Greenair ceased operations, but was reactivated in 1995 as Active Air. [7] That venture also went out of business a year later, [7] due to financial distress. [9]

Istanbul Metropolitan municipality in Marmara, Turkey

Istanbul, formerly known as Byzantium and Constantinople, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural and historic center. Istanbul is a transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling the Bosporus strait between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and historical center lies on the European side and about a third of its population lives in suburbs on the Asian side of the Bosporus. With a total population of around 15 million residents in its metropolitan area, Istanbul is one of the world's most populous cities, ranking as the world's fourth largest city proper and the largest European city. The city is the administrative center of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. Istanbul is viewed as a bridge between the East and West.

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Fleet details

Greenair was a joint venture with Russian investors, and thus used Soviet-built aircraft. [7] Greenair's first aircraft was the Tupolev Tu-154, followed by the Tupolev Tu-134. [7] C. 1991, Greenair owned: [2]

Tupolev Tu-154 Airliner by Tupolev

The Tupolev Tu-154 is a three-engine medium-range narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian airlines for several decades, it carried half of all passengers flown by Aeroflot and its subsidiaries, remaining the standard domestic-route airliner of Russia and former Soviet states until the mid-2000s. It was exported to 17 non-Russian airlines and used as a head-of-state transport by the air forces of several countries.

Tupolev Tu-134 Twin-engined, narrow-body, jet airliner produced 1966-1989

The Tupolev Tu-134 is a twin-engined, narrow-body, jet airliner built in the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1989. The original version featured a glazed-nose design and, like certain other Russian airliners, it can operate from unpaved airfields.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Diplomatic Pulse". Diplomatic Pulse: 33. 1990. Greenair" marked its first anniversary. Since its first flight on 18 May 1990 it carried 180,000 passengers and manifested a high performance. It has already become the biggest private sector airline of Turkey...
  2. 1 2 3 4 Turbine-engined Fleets of the World's Airlines. Exxon Corporation. 1991. p. 34.
  3. 1 2 Brosnahan, Tom (1993). Turkey: a travel survival kit. Lonely Planet. p. 89. Don't neglect the European and Turkish charter lines such as Condor (German) and Greenair (Turkish) which fly to Turkey from more than a dozen European centres, often for round-trip fares as low as US$350 or US$400.
  4. 1 2 Brosnahan, Tom (1993). Turkey: a travel survival kit. Lonely Planet. p. 469. Greenair, a joint Turkish-Russian line, has daily flights between Antalya and Istanbul. Discounts of 50% are offered to children from two to 12 years old, passengers taking middle-of-the-night flights, and women with green eyes.
  5. ↑ "Trade Finance". Trade Finance. Euromoney Publications (93–98). 1991. Rumours now abound in Istanbul that Sultan Air is about to buy out Greenair, a Soviet-Turkish joint venture.
  6. ↑ Ayliffe, Rosie; Dubin, Marc Stephen; Gawthrop, John (1991). The Real Guide: Turkey. Prentice Hall. p. 21. Greenair, a new Soviet-Turkish venture, is similar but with a much smaller flight network to date.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hengi, B.I. (2000). Airlines remembered : over 200 airlines of the past, described and illustrated in colour. Midland Publishing.
  8. ↑ Country Profile: Turkey. Economist Intelligence Unit. 1994. p. 36. The national flag carrier, Turk Hava Yollari, carried 2.4 million internal and 1.7 million international passengers. A number of smaller private companies, notably Istanbul Airlines and Green Air, compete with THY on domestic and international routes, in both scheduled and charter flights.
  9. ↑ "Google Scholar". Scholar.google.com. Retrieved 25 February 2019.


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