Bosphorus Airways

Bosphorus Airways
IATA code :	6Z
ICAO code :	E.G
Call sign :	BOSPHORUS AIRWAYS
Founding:	1991
Operation stopped:	1994
Seat:	Istanbul , Turkey
Home airport :	Istanbul Ataturk Airport
Fleet size:	2
Aims:	international
Bosphorus Airways ceased operations in 1994. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Bosphorus Airways (Turkish Bosphorus Hava Yollari Turizm ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi ) was a Turkish airline .

history

Bosphorus Airways was founded in 1991 by Turkish businessmen and began operations in April 1992 with two Boeing 737-300s leased from JAT Airways . The leasing of an additional McDonnell Douglas DC-10 from JAT Airways at the beginning of the summer season could not be realized due to declining booking numbers. In May 1993, the two Boeing 737-300s were seized during maintenance work at Dublin Airport on behalf of the Irish Minister of Transport, as the rental payments to JAT Airways were in breach of the UN embargo on Serbia . In order to be able to maintain flight operations, Bosphorus Airways had to rent aircraft from other companies at short notice. The precarious situation finally drove the company into ruin, so that flight operations had to be suspended at the end of the 1993 summer season. The plan to resume flight operations in 1994 could not be implemented and Bosphorus Airways finally ceased operations in the same year.

fleet

Before operations ceased , the permanent fleet consisted of two Boeing 737-300s , all of which had been seized.

Trivia

The Bosphorus Airways logo showed the letters BHY in front of a stylized globe. The letters were derived from the Turkish name of Bosphorus Airways: B osphorus H ava Y ollari.

See also

• Former Airlines List (Asia)

Web links

Commons : Bosphorus Airways  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ch-aviation: Bosphorus Airways , accessed on June 6, 2015
2. ↑ Tina Ramesteiner: The Bosphorus decision of the ECHR ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Page 5. Seminar paper, University of Vienna, winter semester 2009/2010 
3. ↑ BI Hengi: Past, Forgotten, Gone - Former airlines worldwide bankruptcies, mergers and sales from 1970 . NARA-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-925671-27-7 .
4. ↑ Klaus Vomhof: Leisure Airlines of Europe . SCOVAL Publishing Ltd, 2001, ISBN 1-902236-09-2 .
5. ↑ planespotters.net: Bosphorus Airways Fleet Details and History , accessed June 6, 2015