Pegasus Airlines

Low-cost 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. 

More than 200 flights have been canceled by Turkish airline companies amid expectations of snowfall in Istanbul. 

A cleaning staff member was killed in the early hours of Wednesday December 23 when a mysterious bomb explosion caused damage at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport while another was wounded. Details regarding the bomb explosion at 2 a.m. are still being investigated and the cause of the explosion remains undetermined, according to a written statement issued by Pegasus Airlines.

Amazon Web Services Turkey has announced that it has opened an office to support the rapid adoption of cloud computing in the country.

Low-cost Turkish carrier Pegasus plans to distribute 100,000 free tickets to mark the 10th anniversary of its establishment, with the first 100,000 people who buy a domestic or foreign-bound ticket as of Dec. 3 benefiting from the campaign, according to company representatives. 

The tickets can be used until March 31, 2016, they added. 

An aircraft of Turkey's Pegasus Airlines safely made an emergency landing at Sofia Airport, Bulgaria on Friday afternoon, BGNES reported.

The only remedy for struggling Turkish airliners, which have not benefited from the drop in oil prices due to existing hedging deals with fuel companies, amid the dramatic rise in the U.S. dollar is to sell tickets in the same currency, according to low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines' Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Serhan Ulga. 

Airline companies? operational costs have increased by 20 percent due to repeated delays at Istanbul?s Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen airports amid ongoing construction work during the summer, according to sector representatives. 

Turkey's Pegasus Airlines saw a 10 percent rise in the number of passengers using the low-cost carrier to 10.17 million in the first half of the year, the company said in a written statement to the Public Disclosure Platform on July 31. 

Turkey's low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines has announced that it has changed the base currency for pricing of international tickets originating in Turkey, from the euro to the U.S. dollar. 

The decision will be effective as of July 1, the company said in a written statement on June 12.