Ankair

Ankair
IATA code :
ICAO code :	VVF
Call sign :	WORLDFOCUS
Founding:	2005
Operation stopped:	2008
Seat:	Istanbul , Turkey
Home airport :	Istanbul Ataturk Airport
Company form:	Dünyaya Bakış Hava Taşımacılığı A.Ş.
Fleet size:	2
Aims:	National and international
Ankair ceased operations in 2008. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Anka Air ( Ankair , previously World Focus Airlines ) was a Turkish charter airline based in Istanbul and based at Istanbul-Ataturk Airport .

history

World Focus Airlines logo

The company was founded on September 27, 2005 as World Focus Airlines and began flight operations with 2 Airbus A310s . Because of the negative headlines after the crash of Atlasjet flight 4203 on November 30, 2007, operated by World Focus Airlines, the company changed its name to Anka Air and introduced the Ankair brand in February 2008. Anka makes a reference to the Turkish word for phoenix ( anka kuşu ).

In July 2008, Ankair ceased flight operations because the Turkish aviation authority withdrew its operating license. The reason was a prescribed minimum fleet size of three aircraft.

Destinations

Anka Air operated charter flights in Europe and the Middle East .

fleet

(As of April 2008)

• 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-83

Incidents

• On November 30, 2007, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 , which was operated for Atlasjet (now AtlasGlobal ), crashed shortly before landing at the Suleyman Demirel Airport in Isparta . All 57 people on board were killed in the crash.

See also

• Former Airlines List (Asia)

Web links

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

• Photos from Ankair on Airliners.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ch-aviation.ch - Ankair fleet ( memento of November 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English) accessed on November 2, 2011
2. ↑ CARNOC.com - Turkish CAA Suspends Ankair over Insufficient Fleet (English) July 21, 2008