Boğaziçi Hava Taşımacılığı

Boğaziçi Hava Taşımacılığı, A.Ş.
IATA code :	PQ
ICAO code :	BHT
Call sign :	BASFIR
Founding:	1986
Operation stopped:	1989
Seat:	Istanbul , Turkey
Home airport :	Istanbul Ataturk
Company form:	Anonim Şirket
Number of employees:	340 (1988)
Passenger volume:	100,000 (1988)
Freight volume:	4,000 t (1988)
Fleet size:	5
Aims:	international passenger and cargo flight
Boğaziçi Hava Taşımacılığı, A.Ş. ceased operations in 1989. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

The Boğaziçi Hava Taşımacılığı ( German  Bosporus air transport , short BHT , unofficially from English and Bosphorus Air Transport ) was a Turkish airline with headquarters in Istanbul .

history

Boeing 707-300 cargo plane ( TC-JCF ) of BHT on approach for landing at Frankfurt Airport, May 1989

The founding of Boğaziçi Hava Taşımacılığı took place on December 1, 1986 with the significant participation of Turkish Airlines . The latter contributed around 85% to the start-up; the remaining shares were taken over by other Turkish companies and banks before BHT finally started operations in July of the following year 1987 with a charter flight between Istanbul and Berlin-Schönefeld . In addition to two Boeing 707-300C cargo aircraft , which operated in global charter traffic, BHT used two McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10s , which it had previously taken over from its shareholder Turkish Airlines and which it now used to transport Turkish guest workers across Europe . A major breakthrough in the tourism sector was not made because tour operators tended to avoid the company due to its quality and price policy. The situation was different with regard to the cargo flight of BHT: In 1988, transporting around 4,000 tons of cargo to America, Europe, Asia and Africa, BHT operated its own warehouses and cold stores at the airports in Antalya, Ankara, Adana and Izmir.

Later, the BHT fleet was supplemented by leased Boeing 727-200 machines , which also operated from Northern Cyprus . A line connection was also established between Istanbul and Ankara . Then aiming for privatization , the shares in BHT were transferred to the Turkish state development bank in 1988. Since the passenger flight operations, which were responsible for around 75% of BHT's income, had fallen short of expectations over the years, the airline's search for investors turned out to be difficult and ultimately unsuccessful. The plans made towards the end of 1988 for the use of a Boeing 737-200QC in vegetable transport could therefore no longer be implemented and BHT ceased flight operations in 1989; in the course of the same year the company was liquidated and the charter business was taken back by Turkish Airlines.

Destinations

Boğaziçi Hava Taşımacılığı was active in global cargo flight throughout its history and also operated passenger charter flights from Turkey to destinations in Great Britain, West Germany, Italy and Switzerland. In addition to the transport of guest workers, destinations in France were also served as part of package tours.

fleet

Boeing 727-200 ( TC-JFB ) of BHT at Düsseldorf Airport, summer 1988

The Boğaziçi Hava Taşımacılığı fleet documented for the year 1989 ceased operations consisted of the following five machines:

Aircraft type	number	Aircraft registration serial number	Baptismal name	Seats	Remarks
Boeing 707-300C	2	TC-JCC 18715	Usküdar	-	Cargo aircraft, TC-JCF with Hush Kit
		TC-JCF 19271	Beylerbeyi
Boeing 727-200	2	TC-JFA 20434	Ortakoy	185	leased from Aeron Aviation
		TC-JFB 20433	-
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10	1	TC-JAY 46907	Yankoy	345	leased from Turkish Airlines

See also

• Former Airlines List (Asia)

Web links

Commons : Boğaziçi Hava Taşımacılığı  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Isidor Hengi, Josef Krauthäuser: Past, Forgotten, Gone. Former airlines worldwide. Bankruptcies, mergers and sales from 1970 . Nara-Verlag, Allershausen 1999, ISBN 3-925671-27-7 , p. 55 .
2. ↑ Klaus Vomhof: Leisure Airlines of Europe . Scoval, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2001, ISBN 1-902236-09-2 , pp. 147 (English).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Privatization for BHT . In: Flight International . tape 134 , no. 4141 . Reed Business Information, November 26, 1988, ISSN  0015-3710 , p. 22 (English).
4. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher, Antonio Härry, Ernst Sommer, Werner Wyder: jp airline-fleets international 89 . Bucher Publications, Glattbrugg 1989, ISBN 3-85758-123-9 , pp. 429 (English).