Corendon Airlines (incorporated as ''Turistik Hava Taşımacılık A.Ş.'') is a Turkish leisure airline headquartered in Antalya and based at Antalya Airport. Corendon Airlines is a part of Corendon Tourism Group.

History

Corendon Airlines, founded in 2004 with flight operations starting in April 2005, is an international airline transporting approximately 6 million travelers each year. The Dutch sister company Corendon Dutch Airlines was founded in 2011 and the

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sister company Corendon Airlines Europe was founded in 2017.

Destinations

Corendon Airlines operates flights from 145 airports in more than 40 countries; majorly Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium,

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, Austria, Poland, Israel, Egypt, Spain, Italy, France, Iran, Portugal,

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, North Macedonia, Romania, and Scandinavian countries with full charter, split charter, sub charter, and wet lease business models. Corendon Airlines uses many airports to base its aircraft in many countries. Besides Antalya, Izmir and

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in Turkey, the airline bases aircraft in Hannover, Cologne,

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and Nurnberg in Germany. In 2021, Corendon Airlines added three new European bases: Dusseldorf in Germany, London in the United Kingdom and Basel in

Fleet

The Corendon Airlines current fleet consists of the following aircraft as of July 22, 2022: Detur

Accidents and incidents

On 2 October 2010 a Boeing 737-400 of Corendon Airlines overran runway 22 at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport and ended up with its nose gear in the mud after a flight from Dalaman. On 14 October 2012 Corendon Airlines Flight 733, a Boeing 737-800 operating between Antalya and Trondheim suffered a hull loss after the plane caught fire during pushback from the gate. 27 passengers were injured during the evacuation. The cause was determined to be a short circuit in the captain's cockpit panel near an oxygen tank.

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