Sunways Intersun

Sunways Intersun
IATA code :	IS
ICAO code :	SWW
Call sign :	INTERSUN
Founding:	1994
Operation stopped:	1997
Seat:	Istanbul , Turkey
Home airport :	Istanbul Ataturk Airport
Fleet size:	4th
Aims:	international
Sunways Intersun ceased operations in 1997. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Sunways Intersun (officially Sunways Intersun Havacilik , trading as Sunways ) was a Turkish charter airline that ceased operations in 1997.

history

Sunways Intersun was founded on November 1st, 1994 in Istanbul as a subsidiary of the Turkish tourism group Tursem Group . The company offered charter flights for package travelers to Turkey, which were marketed through various group-owned tour operators in Denmark , Germany , Finland , Great Britain , Norway and Sweden . The start of flight operations took place on April 8, 1995 with three leased McDonnell Douglas MD-83 . Another aircraft of this type was added to the fleet in March 1996. In 1997, the company also briefly leased Boeing 757 aircraft from its Swedish sister company Sunways Airlines .

The Turkish parent company Tursem Group and its European subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy in September 1997 . The airline Sunways Intersun ceased operations in October 1997.

fleet

• Boeing 757-200 (1997 leased from Sunways Airlines for a short time )
• McDonnell Douglas MD-83

See also

• Former Airlines List (Asia)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Flight International, April 1, 1997 [1]
2. ^ ^{A b} Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2001
3. ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 96/97
4. ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 97/98
5. ↑ Flight International, March 24, 1998 [2]