AtlasGlobal

This article covers the former Turkish airline. For the US charter airline, see Atlas Air .

AtlasGlobal Havacılık A.Ş.
IATA code :	KK
ICAO code :	KKK
Call sign :	ATLASJET
Founding:	2001 (as Atlasjet)
Operation stopped:	February 12, 2020
Seat:	Istanbul , Turkey
Turnstile :	Istanbul Airport , Antalya Airport
Home airport :	Istanbul Airport
Company form:	A.Ş.
IATA prefix code :	610
Management:	Orhan Coşkun ( CEO )
Number of employees:	~ 730
Fleet size:	2
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.atlasglb.com
AtlasGlobal Havacılık A.Ş. ceased operations February 12, 2020. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

AtlasGlobal Havacılık A.Ş. (formerly Atlasjet ) was a Turkish airline based in Istanbul and based at Istanbul Airport , which ceased its flight operations on February 12, 2020.

history

AtlasGlobal was founded on March 14, 2001 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Öger Holding under the name Atlasjet International Airways and began flight operations on June 1, 2001. As of January 31, 2006, the Öger Group completely sold its remaining 45% shares to Atlasglobal.

In November 2011, Atlasjet signed a letter of intent to order ten Airbus A220-300s .

On October 5th, 2013 the airline Zagrosjet was founded in the autonomous region of Kurdistan and is operated by AtlasGlobal. Among other things, Turkish destinations are served, but also destinations such as Amman, Beirut and Stockholm.

In the same year, AtlasGlobal Ukraine was founded with headquarters in Lviv . It operates flights to Istanbul from Kharkiv .

The company has been operating under the name AtlasGlobal since April 2015 .

With the closure of its home airport Istanbul-Ataturk , AtlasGlobal moved to Istanbul Airport in April 2019 .

On November 26, 2019, the airline announced that it would suspend air traffic until December 21, 2019 due to financial difficulties. In addition, large parts of the workforce are to be laid off. Financial problems became known as early as August 2019, with the company owing, among other things, around $ 286,000 to Sheremetyevo Airport . In November 2019, several machines were already returned to the lessors.

On December 21, 2019, AtlasGlobal was able to resume flight operations with four aircraft and a greatly reduced route network. In January 2020, the two Airbus A330-200s were returned to the lessor.

On February 12, 2020, Turkish media reported that AtlasGlobal would go into bankruptcy and that employees would no longer have to show up for work the following day. Flight operations ceased on the same day. On February 14th, the Turkish aviation authority announced that AltasGlobal has finally ceased operations.

Destinations

AtlasGlobal flew from Istanbul and Antalya to destinations within Turkey and Europe .

In German-speaking countries were Hamburg and Dusseldorf served. Furthermore, other seasonal destinations were offered.

fleet

Airbus A320-200 of AtlasGlobal

When operations ceased in February 2020, the AtlasGlobal fleet consisted of two aircraft with an average age of 22.0 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( Business / Economy )
Airbus A321-200	2			204 (12/192)
total	2

The following aircraft models were also used before operations ceased:

• 1 Airbus A319-100
• 7 Airbus A320-200
• 2 Airbus A321-100
• 6 Airbus A330-200
• 2 Boeing 737-800
• and 12 more Airbus A321-200

Incidents

The later crashed MD-83

• On August 18, 2007, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 ( aircraft registration TC-AKN ) was hijacked on Atlasjet flight 1011 from Cyprus to Istanbul. The pilots told the two kidnappers that they would have to stop over in Antalya to refuel. The kidnappers reached an agreement with the Turkish authorities, after which women and children were released. The lack of overview of the kidnappers during the release was also used by most of the other passengers and the pilots to escape from the machine. With only a few hostages remaining, the kidnappers finally gave up. The “explosives” used by the kidnappers as a threat turned out to be harmless plasticine .
• On November 30, 2007, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (aircraft registration TC-AKM ) coming from Istanbul crashed on Atlasjet flight 4203 while approaching the city of Isparta in southwest Turkey . All 57 occupants, 50 passengers and 7 crew members were killed.

See also

• Former Airlines List (Asia)

Web links

Commons : AtlasGlobal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Atlasjet website (Turkish, English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Özgür Töre: AtlasGlobal Goes Bankrupt, Ceases Operations. Retrieved February 13, 2020 (UK English). 
2. ↑ David Haße: Turkish Atlasglobal gives up. In: airliners.de. Retrieved February 13, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Atlasjet wants to order CSeries airliners.de, November 15, 2011.
4. ^ The first airline for Kurdistan aerotelegraph.com, October 3, 2013.
5. ↑ ch-aviation - Turkey's Atlasjet to rebrand as AtlasGlobal next month. accessed on July 25, 2015.
6. ^ Joanna Bailey: Financial Difficulties Behind Atlas Global Flight Suspension. November 26, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Atlas Global ceases flight operations. Retrieved November 27, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Court Confirms $ 286,000 debt by AtlasGlobal to Sheremetyevo. Retrieved November 27, 2019 . 
9. ↑ AtlasGlobal has fledged again. December 22, 2019, accessed December 27, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Atlas Global returns long-haul aircraft. Retrieved February 12, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Turkish airline: Atlasglobal is about to end. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. February 12, 2020, accessed on February 12, 2020 (Swiss Standard German). 
12. ↑ Thibault Lapers: Turkish air carrier Atlas Global is bankrupt and stops operations. In: Aviation24.be. February 12, 2020, accessed February 12, 2020 (UK English). 
13. ↑ Bankruptcy: Atlasglobal has definitely come to an end. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. February 14, 2020, accessed on February 14, 2020 (Swiss Standard German). 
14. ↑ Flight Map ( Memento from September 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) atlasglb.com, accessed on September 26, 2016 (English).
15. ^ Atlas Global Fleet Details and History. Retrieved February 12, 2020 . 
16. ^ Atlas Global Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 12, 2020, accessed on April 12, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report TC-AKN in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
18. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report TC-AKM in the Aviation Safety Network (English)