‘NISA NUR’ HAS JOINED TURKEY’S YOUNGEST FLEET OF BOEING 737-8OOs

As Turkey’s greatest investor in the privately owned commercial airline sector, Pegasus Airlines has now taken delivery of its fifteenth Boeing 737-800.

Pegasus Airlines now boasts a fleet of 33 aircraft following the addition of this fifteenth Boeing 737-800, part of an order of 40 aircraft representing the largest investment in the Turkish private airline sector.

At the launch of its scheduled flights in 2005, Pegasus Airlines took steps to establish a ‘fleet of the future’ and in accordance with its ongoing tradition has named this new aircraft ‘Nisa Nur’ after the daughter of Performance Manager Resul Ozdemir.

Pegasus has so far taken delivery of the following aircraft: Hayirli (November 2007), Hanim (January 2008), Gulce (August 2008), Ece (February 2009), Selin (June 2009), Merve (August 2009), Dilara (March 2010), Isik (2 April 2010), Duru (14 April 2010), Sude Naz (8 June 2010), Damla (26 June 2010), Min Nisa (30 June 2010), Derin (31 July 2010).

Pegasus Airlines, which provides the masses with economic air travel, placed an order for 40 Next-Generation Boeing 737-800s at a value of $3.2 billion list price in parallel with the growth of Turkey’s airline market of the last four years.

As the first privately owned airline in Turkey to make such a large order, Pegasus continues to take delivery of its Next-Generation aircraft and by the end of 2011 will have a fleet of 40 aircraft (including Izair’s). By 2015 the whole order of aircraft will have joined Pegasus’s fleet.

By the end of 2011, with the addition of new Boeing 737-800 aircraft, the average age of Pegasus’s Boeing 737-800 fleet will be 2.68 years.

Source: Pegasus Airlines