ʻO Istanbul, Turkey (eTN) - Huakaʻi ʻia nā mokulele Turkish (THY) he 11 mau mokulele mokulele ʻē aʻe i loko o 2008. E hoʻomaka ana nā THY i nā huakaʻi pololei i Toronto (Kanada), Wakinekona (USA), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Aleppo (Syria), Birmingham (Beritania), Lahore (Pakistan), Atyrau (Kazakhstan), Oran (Algeria), Lvov (ʻUkelena), Ufa (Lūkia) a me Alexandria (ʻAigupita).
Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ʻo THY ma 1933 ka mokulele mokuʻāina o Turkey a ua hoʻokumu ʻia ma Istanbul. Hoʻohana ia i kahi pūnaewele o nā lawelawe i hoʻonohonoho ʻia i 107 honua a me 32 mau kūlanakauhale kūloko, e lawelawe ana i ka huina o 139 mau mokulele, ma ʻEulopa, Asia, ʻApelika, a me ʻAmelika. ʻO THY, me kāna mau mokulele 100 i ka awelika o nā makahiki ʻehiku, ʻo ia kekahi o nā ʻauwaʻa ʻōpio loa ma ʻEulopa.
I kēia manawa, SunExpress Airlines, hoʻokumu ʻia ma 1989 ma ke ʻano he hui like ma waena o Turkish Airlines a me ka German Lufthansa Company, e hoʻohui iā Istanbul i kāna hub flight kūloko a me nā honua ma hope o Antalya a me Izmir. Hoʻonohonoho ʻia ʻo SunExpress e hoʻoneʻe i nā mokulele i hoʻonohonoho ʻia i kēia kauwela mai ke kahua mokulele ʻo Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen.
E hoʻokumu ʻia ʻelua mokulele ma ke kahua mokulele ʻo Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen a e lele ana i Adana, Antalya, Diyarbakir, Erzurum, Kars, Trabzon a me Van ma nā ala kūloko a i nā kūlanakauhale Kelemania ʻo Nurnberg, Cologne a me Hannover.
ʻO ka luna nui o SunExpress ʻo Paul Schwaiger i ʻōlelo, "E hoʻohui i nā mokulele ʻo Istanbul i mea neʻe no kā mākou hui, ma ka hana ʻana pēlā mākou e lilo i alakaʻi mokulele pilikino i nā mokulele kūloko."
Ua ʻōlelo ka ʻoihana e hoʻolālā nei e hoʻonui i kāna ʻauwaʻa mai 14 a i 17 mau mokulele mai Boeing.
