Pegasus Airlines expand UK Turkey schedules

The low-cost carrier, Pegasus Airlines, have this week announced that they are to increase their frequency of flights between Turkey and the UK. Some of the planned services are routs from Birmingham to Bodrum and Antalya; London to Bodrum, Dalaman and Istanbul and Manchester to Dalaman and Antalya. This is another move by the firm to further bolster their capacity on flights from the UK. In 2008 they handled a little over 100,000 passengers, but for the first 10 months of 2009 they have already more than doubled this to 213,000.

The airline are obviously doing fine throughout the economic crisis as the chairman said told the press about their order of 23 Boeing 737-800s which should be in service by 2012 at a cost of $2.3 billion. This is the largest in the region and they have not stopped there as they are looking to add more planes to that order. For the first four months of the year Pegasus managed to increase business by almost 45 per cent in both domestic and international flights. This has just added to the superb first four years of their existence and they now control just short of 20 per cent of the entire Turkish air market.

In a time where some airlines are not doing so well and being bought out or disappearing into the airline scrap heap it seems it is the low-cost carriers that are really working. The travelling public are looking for cheaper ways to get to their destination and the generation of cheap travel is becoming more appealing.