Welcome to Frankfurt Airport’; The new Sky Line train (Line 2) is out of service until further notice. This is what passengers are told at the facility and anyone who checks the website of Germany's ’'s largest airport will read.
The reason for the suspension “necessary technical reviews and adjustments in the general system”. Passengers will now have to use shuttle buses instead of the new train commuting between Terminals 1, 2 and 3 every day.
However, the new Sky Line Frankfurt Airport opened just a month ago at ’. The self-driving train, on its 5.6-kilometer route, Terminal 1’ to Terminal 3’e, is designed to carry up to 4,000 ’ and non-Schengen passengers per hour. The aim was to provide a fast, efficient and free service by getting passengers to their destinations in just eight minutes. Twelve trains, each consisting of two wagons, are planned to work on the line that will connect the regional and long-distance train stations of Frankfurt Airport’ to Terminal 3’.
It is not yet clear when Sky Line’ will fulfill these promises once again. Operator Fraport asked for the passengers' understanding and said he was working to get the train back into service as soon as possible.
According to Frankfurt Airport’, Terminal 3’ is intended to usher in a new era. The transition from Terminal 2’ to Terminal 3’e is scheduled to be completed on June 9, and the operator says the new terminal will have a capacity of 19 million passengers per year. Fraport has invested a total of 4 billion euros in the project. However, the promised “excellent connection” was slightly delayed due to the decommissioning of Sky Line’.
A Chinese company has announced that it is testing the first prototype of a commercial transport aircraft that can travel almost twice as fast as the Concorde ⁇ , the world's first supersonic passenger-carrying aircraft.
According to the company, all the composite structures of the aircraft successfully withstood many conditions during the test flight.
Chinese Space Transport, known as Lingkong Tianxing Technology in China, announced the first successful test flight of the Yunxing prototype aircraft, according to Sputnik ⁇ .
According to the company's theses, the aircraft can fly at Mach 4 or about 3,69 miles per hour.
According to local media, the aircraft will be able to make its first flight in 2027.
CONCORDE STAYING BACK?
The Concorde aircraft broke all records of supersonic passenger travel when it was first introduced to the market. Concorde, which was designed and produced by Sud Aviation and later became part of France's Aerospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation, is still known as one of the masterpieces of aviation technology.
The Concorde was known as the first turbojet-powered supersonic passenger plane to carry passengers through the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, and could reach Mach 2 or a maximum speed of 1,330 miles per hour.
The Chinese company aims to break the record by introducing a commercial aircraft that can now reach the Mach 4 face. It is claimed that the company's new aircraft can arrive from Beijing to New York in a journey that takes about two hours. Theoretically, this means that the plane could fire full medicine around the Earth in seven hours.
The new aircraft prototype, designed by China Space Transport, also has different features, such as taking off vertically and flying at an altitude of about 20,000 meters.
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu came together with senior executives of THY, AJet, Pegasus and SunExpress Airlines in Istanbul and discussed the general situation of Turkish civil aviation in internal and external lines and its future predictions.
Minister Uraloğlu, in his press statement after the meeting, ⁇ We discussed the lack of flights in our country and how we can eliminate these deficiencies, especially by focusing on the issue of internal border flights. ⁇ said.
⁇ WE SHOW SENSITIVITY TO MAKE FLIGHT NUMBERS CONSISTENT, ACTIVE AND EFFICIENT ⁇
Minister Uraloğlu stated that airline enterprises are commercial organizations operating on the principles of free market, ⁇ Betting on starting a flight on a line on normal bases, increasing the number of flights, making ticket discounts or campaigns is at the sole discretion of the enterprises. However, as we do today as the Ministry, we carry out systematic consultations with airline operators and convey our evaluations for regions where demand is heavy in the country and ensure that the necessary plans are made.
Especially in summer periods, we receive requests from our citizens to increase the number of flights due to the number and density of flights. Because, we show a special sensitivity to make the number of flights to every point of Turkey stable, active and efficient. He used his words.
⁇ RECOVERY OF 139 THOUSAND 103 PASSENGER CAPACITY WITH 670 PASSENGER FLIGHTS IN THE FILOS OF AIRLINE BUSINESSES ⁇
Stating that 14 airline companies licensed in Turkey operate and 4 of them operate internal line passenger flights, Minister Uraloğlu said, ⁇ The airline companies in our country have a capacity of 139 thousand 103 passengers with a total of 670 passenger aircraft in their fleets. Today we carry an average of 207 passengers per plane.
Of course, we didn't come easy these days. On May 20, 1933, with the decision of the Airline State Enterprise Administration under the Ministry of National Defense to start service, our first fleet of 4 aircraft started to operate under the name of Turkish Air Mail.
Turkish Air Mail, which started to flap its wings by making its first flight in 1933, has now taken almost the whole world under its wings under the name of Turkish Airlines.
If you ask about the first commercial airport, I can tell you the area called Güvercinlik today in Ankara ⁇ . As for the terminal, there was nothing but a few tents. However, today, we have 58 airports with Çukurova International Airport, which we opened on August 10. Our Istanbul Airport, which we opened in 2018, continues to maintain the first place it has had for years as the heaviest airport in Europe. He said it.
100 of the Republic. PASSENGER RECORD OF ALL CASH WAS BREAKED IN 2023
Reminding that 399 passengers traveled by air in 1939 compared to the first statistic shared by the State Statistical Institute in 1939, Minister Uraloğlu said that after 1985, the number of external borders passengers exceeded the number of internal lines passengers, and after 1990, we observe that the increase in the number of external lines passengers reached striking dimensions.
When we come to 2002, while approximately 8 million 730 thousand passengers are traveling at the internal borders, we see that this number has risen to more than 25 million in the outer lines. That is, in 2002, we had about 34 million passengers traveling along the inner and outer lines.
We see that our number of airline passengers has steadily increased in parallel with the development of our aviation department since 2002 until 2020, when we experienced the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Of course, there is a decrease in these years due to the epidemic effect. However, in 2023, the centenary of our Republic, we have broken the record of all times by carrying more than 214 million passengers.
At the end of the year, we predict that our number of passengers will rise to the top of 236 million.
Uraloğlu noted that the number of flights including transit overpasses at the Turkish airport in 2023 increased by 14.9 percent compared to the previous year and increased to 2 million 167 thousand 19 ⁇ a, Thus, in 2023, a plane passed through the skies of Turkey every 15 seconds.
We will reach much higher prices than these statistics this year and in the coming periods; By the end of this year, we expect our passenger numbers to exceed 236 million and 250 million by 2025. I think that one of the most striking examples of the expression ⁇ from where ⁇ , which is frequently expressed by our President, is our increasing number of passengers in parallel with the development in our airline department. ⁇ He spoke on condition.
⁇ BY THE END OF THIS YEAR, OUR NUMBER OF FLIGHT POINTS ON EXTERNAL LIMITS WILL BE 349 ⁇ A
Uraloğlu noted that there are currently an average of 7 thousand weekly reciprocal flights by carriers at internal borders and an average of 20 thousand flights at external borders. ⁇ At this point, as the Ministry, we continue to provide the necessary supplements in the internal lines as we help airline businesses to increase flights at external points.
For example, as a result of our long-term negotiations, with the prestige of Santiago ⁇ ya, the capital city of Chile, on December 18, 2024, we start flights with THY as 4 weekly frequencies on the Istanbul-Sao Paolo (Brazil)-Santiago line. Thus, it will be your first time to Chile. On the other hand, THY will start flights on the Istanbul-Kuala Lumpur-Sydney border with its historical prestige on December 4, 2024.
Following the Melbourne flights that started this year, Sydney will be the second new point we will open in the Australian continent. Thus, at the end of this year, our number of flight points at the external borders will increase to 349 ⁇ . ⁇ He said it.
⁇ 2025 TRAVEL NUMBERS WILL BE INCREASED IN LINES WHICH HAVE PRIOR REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SUMMER PERIOD ⁇
Minister Uraloğlu, domestic lines, in the middle of cities with a travel time of at least 5 hours or more by road or train, at least one flight every day in the morning and evening, and the previous period, the season occupancy average of more than 95 percent, mentioning that plans were made on the side of putting an additional flight, ⁇ Now, businesses will start feasibility studies as soon as possible in lines with priority need for the summer term of 2025 and the number of flights will be increased. We, as the Ministry, will be a follower of whether our airline companies have increased the number of flights in line with this planning we have made. ⁇ He used his words.
12 NEW INTERIOR LIMITS WILL BE STARTED AT THE END OF OCTOBER
Uraloğlu stated that in the summer period of 2024, the average occupancy of carriers in Turkey was at 90 percent. This level is 85% in the winter period due to the decrease in mobility. However, as I have just stated, we have given the necessary notifications to increase the flights to our businesses at the points of need in line with the demands from our citizens.
As a result of the evaluation we made at our meeting, I would like to share here the announcement that 12 new domestic border flights will be started by Sunexpress Airlines with the prestige of the end of October in the coming winter period as a result of the studies we started earlier. ⁇ He said it.
RIZE-ARTVIN AIRPORT-ANTALYA EXPERIENCES START
Minister Uraloğlu, who gave information about the new expeditions, We are launching Rize-Artvin Airport-Antalya, Antalya-Bursa, Antalya-Erzurum, Antalya-Şanlıurfa, İzmir-Elazığ, İzmir-Nevşehir, İzmir-Sivas, İzmir-Şanlıurfa, Çukurova-Bursa, Çukurova-Samsun, Çukurova-Trabzon and Çukurova-Van.
With these flights, we will also expand the domestic border flight network of Çukurova International Airport, which we have just opened.
I wish him well already. Just like Izmir and Antalya ⁇ yi, Anadolu ⁇ da, which received many demands from our citizens at the same time, especially during the summer period; We will connect Bursa, Erzurum, Sivas, Nevşehir, Elazığ, Şanlıurfa cities and increase the number of flights on some borders. ⁇ He used his expressions.
⁇ WE WILL OFFER A MORE ACCESSIBLE AND REACHABLE AIR TRANSPORT TO OUR CITIZENS ⁇
Uraloğlu stated that they also discussed the status of the flights requested urgently at the meeting, ⁇ We have evaluated our domestic border flights based on lines, especially in our provinces based in Istanbul and Ankara, where there is only one flight per day or there are no flights every day of the week. In the next period, I believe that precedent campaigns will increase rapidly within our internal borders.
Our airline companies will complete their feasibility studies as soon as possible and inform our Ministry at which points and how many times they will increase their domestic border flights. After this study, if necessary, we will come together with businesses once again and reveal our roadmap in a clearer form. In this way, we will offer our citizens a more accessible and accessible air transportation. ⁇ He said it.
CEILING PRICE APPLICATION SHOULD BE TRAVELED IN A TIGHT WAY
Uraloğlu said that one of the valuable agenda elements of the meeting was the ceiling price application applied in airline transportation, As you know, since 2012, we have been applying a ceiling price in order for our citizens not to be victims and for each part to be able to use the airway.
Since August; We apply a ceiling price of 2 thousand 500 liras for 80 percent of the tickets on a flight and 4 thousand liras for the remaining 20 percent as a result of the sale of these tickets.
In our meeting, we reminded our businesses once again to comply with the ceiling price application in a strict form. Whether our citizens are happy, we are also tightly controlling this application. ⁇ He used his expressions.
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, Istanbul-Ankara- Sivas Stating that the Yıldızeli and Elmadağ stations on the YHT Line will be put into service tomorrow, ⁇ From tomorrow, both Istanbul- Sivas YHT and Ankara- Sivas YHT will meet its passengers in these two stations, which meet the comfortable and fast transportation needs of our citizens. ⁇
Uraloğlu in his written statement, Ankara- Sivas High Speed Train Line was put into service on April 26, 2023, Istanbul- Sivas On the line, he reminded that passenger transportation started on May 4, 2024.
Istanbul and Ankara- Sivas Uraloğlu, who stated that after Kırıkkale, Yerköy, Yozgat, Sorgun and Akdağmadeni stations on the YHT Line, Yıldızeli and Elmadağ stations will also be opened to the service of passengers, ⁇ We are putting our Yıldızeli and Elmadağ stations into service on Monday, September 23, after Yerköy Station, which was last opened for passenger use on August 23. As of tomorrow, both Istanbul- Sivas YHT and Ankara- Sivas YHT will meet its passengers in these two stations, which respond to the comfortable and fast transportation needs of our citizens. ⁇
⁇ Istanbul - Turkey Sivas 200 thousand 186 passengers traveled with YHT Line in 4.5 months ⁇
Uraloğlu pointed out that approximately 1.3 million citizens met with the comfort of high speed trains with the connection of Kırıkkale, Yozgat and Sivas provinces to the Ankara-based YHT network, and 1 million 306 thousand 159 passengers have traveled with our Ankara-Sivas YHT Line since its opening. In just 4.5 months, I would like to state that the number of passengers traveling with the Istanbul-Sivas YHT Line has reached 200 thousand 186 ⁇ . We expect this interest to increase further with the introduction of new stations. Each new station is not only a point of transportation, but also a bridge that strengthens the connection between our regions.
⁇ A development move at the same time ⁇
Minister Uraloğlu underlined that the 2,251-kilometer high-speed train line contributes to Turkey's development goals and said:
Our fast train network is not only a transportation investment, but also an economic and social development move. We bring our cities closer together, revitalize economic activities, and make significant contributions to tourism. Our citizens are now able to travel in a shorter time and more safely. We are working for a stronger and more modern Turkey in transportation. ⁇
The users of US technology giant Google ⁇ chose Istanbul Airport ⁇ as the best in Europe. CNN recently announced that Istanbul Airport is the best transfer airport in the world.
Selahattin Bilgen, CEO of Istanbul Airport Operator İGA ⁇ , announced that Istanbul Airport ⁇ was selected as the best airport in Europe according to a survey conducted on Google users' comments.
Bilgen, who shared on his social media account, as seen in the ⁇ Google comments, we are deeply grateful to everyone who chose us and contributed to our success. Thank you for making Istanbul Airport the best in Europe. We are determined to continue the success. ⁇ He used his expressions.
According to the results of the survey conducted by Google users among European airports, Istanbul Airport ranked first with 4.4 points according to more than 100 thousand Google reviews. Istanbul Airport was followed by Porto, Athens, Czechia and Zurich airports in order of likes.
CNN, the US media giant, recently included the best airports in the world for connecting flights. According to CNN, Istanbul Airport (IGA) was the best airport in the world for transfer flights. CNN, which compiled the data of the aviation company Cirium ⁇ un, noted that Istanbul Airport ⁇ , which opened its doors in October 2018, has improved considerably in 6 years. According to the report, with 309 ports, Istanbul Airport has become the bridge between east and west.
In 2023, more than 76 million passengers flew. The airport, which has an annual capacity of 200 million passengers, is also distinguished by its central location between the east and west of the world. In addition, numerous services offered for the comfort of passengers are the first choice of passengers flying through Istanbul Airport.
Of course, most of these flights are made with Turkish Airlines, the company that flies to the most destinations in the world. The quality of service offered by THY ⁇ also allows passengers to have a comfortable journey through Istanbul Airport. The airport's 5 runways, which allow aircraft of all types and bodies to land and take off, are also important advantages of the airport.
İGA Istanbul Airport, which scored 95.79 points as a result of the votes of the readers in the ⁇ World's Top 10 International Airport ⁇ survey organized annually by Travel and Leisure ⁇ , the world's leading travel magazine based in New York, USA, was entitled to the title ⁇ World's Best Airport ⁇ in July.
