Tailwind Airlines

Tailwind Airlines is a Turkish charter airline based in Istanbul which operates flights from its bases at Antalya Airport.

Tailwind Airlines

IATA ICAO Call sign TI TWI TAILWIND
Founded	2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Hubs	Istanbul Airport Antalya Airport
Fleet size	7
Destinations	40+
Parent company	Tailwind Havayolları
Headquarters	Istanbul, Turkey
Key people	Kadri Muhiddin Safi Ergin Mehmet Demir Uz
Website	tailwind.com.tr

History

The airline was founded as a joint Turkish-British project, with the first commercial flight taking place in May 2009. Founded by Kadri Muhiddin, Safi Ergin and Mehmet Demir Uz in 2006, the low-cost airline operated five Boeing 737-400 as of August 2013. In early September 2016, a Boeing 737-800 with aircraft registration TC-TLH was banned from Lebanon for landing at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. After a technical check, Tailwind Airlines briefly operated the aircraft, which had previously been leased to Wings of Lebanon and painted in its colors, on its own routes.^[1]

Destinations

As of August 2013, Tailwind Airlines flies to various destinations in Europe and Asia:^[2]

• Belgium
  • Brussels – Brussels Airport
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Sarajevo – Sarajevo International Airport
  • Tuzla

- Tuzla International Airport

• Croatia
  • Zagreb – Zagreb Airport
• Czech Republic
  • Prague – Ruzyne Airport
  • Brno - Brno–Tuřany Airport
• Germany
  • Berlin – Schönefeld Airport
  • Bremen – Bremen Airport
  • Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport
  • Dortmund – Dortmund Airport
  • Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport
  • Dresden – Dresden Airport
  • Erfurt/Weimar – Erfurt-Weimar Airport
  • Hahn – Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
  • Hamburg – Hamburg Airport
  • Hanover – Hannover Airport
  • Kassel – Kassel Airport
  • Leipzig – Leipzig/Halle Airport
  • Munich – Munich Airport
  • Nuremberg – Nuremberg Airport
  • Stuttgart – Stuttgart Airport
• Hungary
  • Budapest – Ferihegy Airport
  • Debrecen – Debrecen Airport
• Iraq
  • Erbil - Erbil International Airport
• Israel
  • Tel Aviv - Ben Gurion Airport
• Iran
  • Tehran – IKA Airport
• Italy
  • Bologna – Guglielmo Marconi Airport
  • Milan – Malpensa Airport
  • Rome – Fiumicino Airport
  • Verona – Villafranca Airport
• Jordan
  • Amman – Queen Alia International Airport
• Moldova
  • Chișinău – Chișinău International Airport
• North Cyprus
  • North Nicosia – Ercan Airport
• Norway
  • Oslo – Gardermoen Airport
  • Stavanger – Sola Airport
  • Ålesund – Ålesund Airport, Vigra
• Slovakia
  • Bratislava – M. R. Štefánik Airport
  • Piešťany - Piešťany Airport
• Sweden
  • Kristianstad - Kristianstad Airport
• Switzerland
  • Zürich – Kloten Airport
• Turkey
  • Adana – Adana Airport
  • Ankara – Esenboğa Airport
  • Alanya – Antalya Gazipasa Airport
  • Antalya – Antalya Airport (hub)
  • Bodrum – Milas–Bodrum Airport
  • Dalaman – Dalaman Airport
  • Eskişehir - Anadolu Airport
  • Istanbul – Istanbul Airport (hub)
  • İzmir – Adnan Menderes Airport

Fleet

Tailwind Airlines Boeing 737-400

As of April 2024, the Tailwind Airlines fleet comprises the following aircraft:^[3]

Aircraft	In service	Orders	Passengers
Boeing 737-400	5	—	168
Boeing 737-800	2	—	189
Total	7	—

References

1. Eiselin, Stefan (2016-09-02). "Jet von Wings of Lebanon darf nie mehr in den Libanon". aeroTELEGRAPH (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2022-11-14.
2. Tailwind Airlines Destinations Archived 2013-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
3. "planespotters.net - Tailwind Airlines Fleet Details and History". 1 April 2024.

External links

Media related to Tailwind Airlines at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website