Tailwind Airlines

Tailwind Airlines
IATA code :	TI
ICAO code :	TWI
Call sign :	TAILWIND
Founding:	2008
Seat:	Istanbul , Turkey
Home airport :	Antalya Airport
Management:	Kadri Muhiddin ( CEO )
Fleet size:	5
Aims:	international
Website:	www.tailwind.com.tr

Tailwind Airlines is a Turkish charter airline based in Istanbul and based at Antalya Airport .

history

Tailwind Airlines was founded in 2008 by Turkish and British business people. It received its Air Operator Certificate from the Turkish Aviation Authority on May 12, 2009 and has been operating since then.

Destinations

Tailwind Airlines operates charter flights for tour operators as well as wet lease operations mainly from Antalya Airport on behalf of other airlines .

In the German-speaking countries , Basel , Berlin , Bremen Airport , Dresden , Erfurt-Weimar Airport , Düsseldorf , Leipzig , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , Hanover , Munich , Münster / Osnabrück , Nuremberg , Stuttgart , Vienna and Zurich are served.

fleet

In the meantime, the Boeing 737-800 of Tailwind Airlines is no longer in operation

As of December 2018, the Tailwind Airlines fleet consists of five aircraft with an average age of 23.8 years.

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats
Boeing 737-400	5			168
total	5	-

In the past, Tailwind Airlines also used Boeing 737-800s from the 737 Next Generation family.

Trivia

• At the beginning of September 2016, a Boeing 737-800 with the aircraft registration TC-TLH was banned from Lebanon because it landed at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel . After a technical check, Tailwind Airlines briefly used the aircraft that had previously been leased to Wings of Lebanon and painted in their colors on its own routes.

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Tailwind Airlines  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tailwind Airlines website (Turkish, English, German)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tailwind.com.tr - Destinations accessed on October 1, 2016
2. ↑ ch-aviation : Airline Information - Tailwind Airlines (English), accessed on December 10, 2018.
3. ↑ Jet from Wings of Lebanon is never allowed to enter Lebanon again. aerotelegraph.com, September 2, 2016, accessed September 2, 2016 .