Borajet

Borajet
IATA ICAO Callsign
YB BRJ BORA JET [1]
Founded 2008 [2]
Commenced operations 7 May 2010
Operating bases Sabiha Gökçen Int'l Airport
Fleet size 13
Destinations 23 [3]
Parent company Borajet Havayolları
Headquarters Istanbul, Turkey
Key people
Website borajet.com.tr
A Borajet ATR72 at Antalya, Turkey. (2012)

Borajet (Turkish: Borajet Havayolları) is a privately owned Turkish airline based in Yeşilköy, Bakırköy, Istanbul[5] operating domestic and international services.

History

The airline was founded in 2008 by Yalcin Ayasli,[2] a Turkish businessman living in the USA. Fatih Akol is Chairman of the Board. The company rented a hangar at Atatürk International Airport, Istanbul and then purchased three second-hand ATR 72-500 turboprop aircraft, which were delivered in the beginning of 2010.[4]

Borajet received its "Regional Airline Operations License" on 22 April 2010[6] and started operations on 7 May 2010 with its first flight from Istanbul to Tokat.[7]

Destinations

Borajet serves the following destinations:

Asia

Lebanon
Iran
Iraq

Europe

France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Macedonia
Northern Cyprus
Spain
Turkey

Codeshare agreements

Fleet

The Borajet fleet includes the following aircraft (as of March 2016):[9][10]

Borajet Airlines Fleet
Aircraft In Fleet Orders Passengers Notes
Embraer 190 7 - 100
Embraer 195 6 - 118 3 operated for Turkish Airlines
1 of them (TC-YAT) was painted with Fenerbahçe S.K.'s livery[11]
Embraer 190-E2 - 3[12]
Embraer 195-E2 - 2[12]
Total 13 5

In 2014 Borajet agreed a deal to lease five Embraer 190 aircraft (with options on a further three) from GE Capital Aviation Services.[13] In October 2016 Borajet announced long-term lease deals with AerCap for three Embraer 190-E2 and two Embraer 195-E2 aircraft, with deliveries to begin in 2018.[12]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.avcodes.co.uk/details.asp?ID=12939
  2. 1 2 "Hakkında" (in Turkish). Borajet. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
  3. ↑ borajet.com - Flight Schedules Archived January 13, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. 1 2 Cebeci, Uğur (2009-11-15). "BoraJet geliyor". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2010-05-17.
  5. ↑ "Contact Us." Borajet. Retrieved on 16 February 2011. "ADDRESS İDTM Blokları A-3 Blok Kat:5 Yeşilköy 34149 / İstanbul-TURKEY"
  6. ↑ "Dolmuş uçak için izin çıktı" (in Turkish). Türkiye Eğitim. 2010-04-22. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
  7. ↑ "Borajet, ilk tarifeli uçuşunu gerçekleştirdi". Ulaşım Online (in Turkish). 2010-05-08. Retrieved 2010-05-16.
  8. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/03/18/yb-ibz-s16/
  9. ↑ Borajet Fleet ch-aviation.ch
  10. ↑ Borajet Fleet borajet.com.tr
  11. ↑ Borajet Fenerbahçe Uçağımız Hazır (Turkish)
  12. 1 2 3 "Borajet Secures E2 Deal". Airliner World (December 2016): 8.
  13. ↑ "News". Airliner World: 7. May 2014.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to BoraJet.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/25/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.