Tailwind Airlines

Airline of Turkey

Tailwind Airlines

IATA	ICAO	Callsign
TI	TWI	TAILWIND

Founded

2006; 18 years ago (2006)

Hubs

Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
Antalya Airport

Fleet size

Destinations

40+

Parent company

Tailwind Havayolları

Headquarters

Istanbul, Turkey

Key people

Kadri Muhiddin
Safi Ergin
Mehmet Demir Uz

Website

tailwind.com.tr

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

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 – Sabiha Gökçen Airport (hub)
- İzmir – Adnan Menderes Airport

Fleet

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

^ 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.
^ Tailwind Airlines Destinations Archived 2013-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
^ "planespotters.net - Tailwind Airlines Fleet Details and History". 1 April 2024.