MNG Airlines is a Turkish cargo and passenger charter airline headquartered in Istanbul based at Istanbul Airport.
History The airline was established by Mehmet Nazif Günal in 1997 and started operations on 30 November 1997. Transatlantic services began in 1998 with a flight from Frankfurt to Toronto, followed by scheduled services to the United States on 8 November 1998. In mid-2002, passenger operations were added. In 2005, MNG won an award from Airbus for 100% reliability on the 30-year-old Airbus A300. In 2006, MNG ceased all passenger flights; only cargo flights are being continued. In 2008, MNG Airlines acquired the Slovenian cargo company Solinair.
In 2020, MNG began the operation of its twice-weekly freighter service linking Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) in Germany and John F. Kennedy International (JFK) in New York. The new flight is an expansion of the carrier's routes flown from CGN, which include flights to Istanbul Atatürk Airport (ISL) on behalf of Air France, and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) for its own operations.
On Aug 9, 2023, MNG Airlines (MNGA) Cancels New York Stock Exchange Listing.
Corporate affairs
Ownership Ghita Holding (member of Abu Dhabi's IHC mega-group) acquired a 44 percent stake in MNG Havayollari ve Tasimacilik A.S. (commonly known as ‘MNG Airlines’) for $211.2 million.
Destinations
MNG Airlines operates scheduled and charter services within Europe, and to Asia and North America destinations. It operated scheduled freighter services to the following destinations as of July 2013:
Africa
Algiers - Houari Boumediene Airport Oran - Ahmed Ben Bella Airport
Tripoli – Mitiga International Airport Misrata - Misrata International Airport
Tunis - Tunis–Carthage International Airport
Asia
Manama – Bahrain International Airport
Baghdad - Baghdad International Airport
Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion Airport
Aktobe – Aktobe Airport
Karachi - Jinnah International Airport Lahore - Allama Iqbal International Airport
Doha - Hamad International Airport
Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi International Airport Dubai - Al Maktoum International Airport
Urumqi – Urumqi International Airport
Europe
Zagreb – Zagreb Airport
Paris – Charles de Gaulle Airport
Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport Leipzig – Leipzig/Halle Airport Munich – Munich Airport
Amsterdam – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Istanbul – Istanbul Airport (Hub)
London – London Luton Airport Birmingham – Birmingham Airport East Midlands - East Midlands Airport
North America
New York City - John F. Kennedy International Airport
Fleet , MNG Airlines operates the following aircraft:
+ MNG Airlines fleetAircraftIn fleetOrdersNotesAirbus A300-600RF1—Airbus A321-200/P2F2—Airbus A330-200F2—Airbus A330-300/P2F4—Airbus A350F—2Total 9 2
References
External links
Official website