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SunExpress Airlines
IATA XQ	ICAO SXS	Callsign SUNEXPRESS
Founded		1990
Hubs		Antalya International Airport
Focus cities		Adnan Menderes Airport
Fleet size		13
Destinations		59
Parent company		Lufthansa & Turkish Airlines
Headquarters		Antalya, Turkey
Key people		Paul Schwaiger (Director General) Haci Say (Deputy Director General
Website: http://www.sunexpress.com.tr/ http://www.sunexpress.de/ http://www.sunexpress.ch/

SunExpress (Turkish: Güneş Ekspres Havacılık A.Ş.) is an airline based in Antalya, Turkey. It operates scheduled and charter flights to destinations in Europe. Its main base is Antalya International Airport (AYT).

Contents 1 History 2 Services 3 Fleet 4 External links

The airline was established in October 1989. It started operations in April 1990 with a charter service between Antalya and Frankfurt, Germany. SunExpress was founded as a joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. In 1995 Lufthansa transferred its SunExpress shares to Condor Airlines, now Thomas Cook Airlines, to group all tourist flights under a single unit. In February 2007 Thomas Cook shares were retaken by Lufthansa. The owners of SunExpress: 50% Turkish Airlines, 50% Lufthansa. SunExpress carried just over 2.358 million passengers in 2006. SunExpress is the only airline in Turkey that is ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS certified.

SunExpress operates the following services to scheduled destinations from the hub Antalya (AYT) (at August 2007):

• Frankfurt Daily Service
• Munich Daily Service
• Cologne 6X Weekly
• Zürich 4X Weekly
• Basel 3X Weekly
• Berlin Schönefeld 5X Weekly
• Berlin-Tegel 3X Weekly
• Bremen 3X Weekly
• Dortmund 1X Weekly
• Dresden 1X Weekly
• Dusseldorf 6X Weekly
• Erfurt 1X Weekly
• Friedrichshafen 1X Weekly
• Hamburg 4X Weekly
• Hanover 4X Weekly
• Karlsruhe 1X Weekly
• Leipzig 3X Weekly
• London Stansted Airport 2X Weekly
• Münster 3X Weekly
• Nuremberg 3X Weekly
• Paderborn 2X Weekly
• Rostock 1X Weekly
• Saarbrücken 1X Weekly
• Salzburg 1X Weekly
• Stuttgart 4X Weekly
• Vienna 2X Weekly
• İzmir 12X Weekly
• Diyarbakır 3X Weekly
• Erzurum 2X Weekly
• Van 2X Weekly
• Trabzon 2X Weekly
• Bodrum 1X Weekly (Summer)
• Dalaman 1X Weekly (Summer)

SunExpress also operates the following scheduled destinations from the second hub İzmir (ADB) 2006:

• Cologne
• Frankfurt
• Stuttgart
• Berlin (Berlin-Tegel International Airport)
• Munich
• Dusseldorf
• Hannover
• London2007 (London Stansted Airport)
• Vienna2007
• Zürich
• Athens2007
• Amsterdam2007
• Antalya
• Adana
• Trabzon
• Diyarbakır
• Van
• Erzurum
• Kayseri
• Gaziantep
• Malatya
• Sivas

Domestic Flights start from 29 Turkish Lira (45 Lira All Taxes Included),International Flights start from 29 Euro (57 Euro All Taxes Included)

# of aircraft	Aircraft type	Passenger capacity	Max operating range (km)
8	Boeing 737-800(+2 in order)	189	4,755
4	Boeing 757-200	229	6,800

The SunExpress fleet consists of the following aircraft (at September 2006):

• 8 Boeing 737-800 TC-SUG, TC-SUH, TC-SUI, TC-SUJ, TC-SUL, TC-SUM, TC-SUO, TC-SUU
• 4 Boeing 757-200 TC-SNA, TC-SNB, TC-SNC, TC-SND

13th aircraft TC-SUV will be added in April 2007

All aircrafts are fitted with winglets.

SunExpress average fleet age is 6.4 years (July 2006).

• SunExpress
• SunExpress (German website)
• SunExpress Fleet Detail