Fly Air To Begin Scheduled Flights On November 1

ISTANBUL - Fly Air, which signed a partnership agreement with KLM Exel of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, will begin scheduled flights in domestic lines on November 1, 2002.
Fly Air Executive Board member Haluk Peksen told A.A correspondent on Friday that they were not the rivals of Turkish Airlines (THY) and added that the flights would firstly be made to Trabzon, Kars, Erzurum and Diyarbakir provinces.
Peksen said that Fly Air and KLM Exel's officials had meetings in Turkey and the two companies signed partnership agreement following those meetings.
Haluk Peksen said that KLM was an important world brand and added that they wanted to benefit from the experiences of KLM Exel.
He said that they took scheduled domestic flight licence from Civilian Aviation Directorate General last month.
''KLM Exel will give two EMR-145 planes for the domestic flights. Later, the number of planes will increase. One Airbus 310 and two Boeing 737-400 planes belonging to Fly Air will be used in these flights,'' Peksen said.
Peksen added, ''Turkey has the capacity to carry 170 million passengers and THY carries only 14 million. We will work to fill this gap.''