Pegasus Airlines

A passenger plane almost fell in the Black Sea after leaving the runway at a landing at the airport in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey.

The Turkish airline Pegasus Airlines was flying an Ankara-Trabzon course, said Trabzon Governor Yuguz Yavuz said.

All 162 passengers and crew were evacuated and safe.

According to him, the cause of the accident is still unknown.

Millions of people across Turkey have started to hit the roads during a 10-day public holiday for the Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) and Victory Day, which starts late on Aug. 25 and ends on Sept. 3.

In many tourism resorts, hotel occupancy rates have hit 100 percent.

Pegasus Airlines has reached an agreement to buy Air Berlin's 29.51 percent of stake in their subsidiary İzAir for 1.2 million euros, the carrier said in a written statement late on March 8. 

The share of the company in İzAir will increase to 98.63 percent after the deal is finalized and approved by authorities, according to the statement to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP). 

Heavy fog covered Istanbul on Feb. 28 and has caused delays in air and sea travel in the province. 

Turkish Airlines (THY) announced that they temporarily suspended their flights in Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport beginning from 7:00 a.m. on March 1 due to heavy fog, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Scores of flights from Istanbul airports and city ferry lines have been canceled, as the city continued to struggle on a fourth day of heavy snowfall in what the Mayor Kadir Topbaş described as the heaviest snow in seven years.

Turkish Airlines and Pegasus Airlines were named Turkey's top service exporters, followed by Çalık Energy, in a competition by the Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TİM) in coordination with the Economy Ministry late on Dec. 24 in an award ceremony. There were two other Turkish carriers in the top 10 list too. 

Airplane hijackings such as the one that unfolded on March 29 involving an Egyptian airliner have become relatively rare since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks led to increased security.

The hijackings have been carried out mostly by individuals trying to resolve personal issues, and almost all ended swiftly and safely.
 
Here are some examples:      

Scheduled flights between Russia and Turkey by the two countries' flag carriers have dropped almost 50 percent along with the number of passengers after the downing of Russian jet by Turkey on Nov. 24, 2015, a tourism official has said. 

A plane on a flight from Istanbul to Rome operated by the Turkish firm Pegasus Airlines made an unscheduled stop at Sarajevo on Feb. 25 to evacuate five drunken passengers who had insulted crew members, police said.

Turkish airline Pegasus carried a total of 22.34 million passengers in 2015, a 13.2 percent increase from the previous year, the airline announced in a written statement on Jan. 30. 

The number of domestic flight passengers rose by 15.4 percent to 13.81 million and of foreign flight passengers by 9.8 percent to 8.52 million in 2015 compared to the previous year.