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With a rapidly growing fleet of widebody aircraft and new A330-200 freighter capacity offering complementary lift, flag- carrier Turkish Airlines is well prepared to handle the needs of a booming market. And the country’s other air freight carriers, airports and freight agents are also preparing to handle the future logistics needs of Turkey’s industrial and commercial base


Exploiting a growing market meeting the need


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urkey has had one of the fastest-changing air freight markets in Europe in recent times and no player in its logistics industry portrays this more clearly than its rapidly growing flag- carrier.


Turkish Cargo vice president sales and


marketing Halit Anlatan says that the airline’s expansion plan has several strands, which taken together have the objective of seeing it move 380,000 tons of freight by the end of this year. “With the addition of a new A330-200 freighter to our fleet, we are on the verge of expanding and achieving better results. We had already opened a few routes and more are planned to open in our winter 2011 cargo schedule,” he remarked. Turkish Airlines’ bellyhold cargo capacity


has also increased significantly since its investment in new widebody aircraft,


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including B777-300ERs and A330-300s. Anlatan went on: “During 2011, Turkish Airlines added new routes as well as increasing flight frequencies to existing destinations. “The new routes for Turkish are Washington and Los Angeles in the US; Toulouse, Valencia, Malaga,


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