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Turkish Airlines has established a new real estate investment trust company with a cash capital of 50,000 liras (around $13,000), Turkey’s flag carrier announced on Nov. 17.

National flag carrier Turkish Airlines has signed a declaration pledging zero tolerance on the illegal wildlife trade, the company has said in a statement.

The French and German flag carriers have urged the European Commission to counter what they say are unfair practices by Gulf airlines, seeking to influence the drafting of a new EU law.

NKBM bank and flag carrier Adria Airways get new owners

SSH concluded two major sales in 2016, the April sale of NKBM to US private equity fund Apollo and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the March sale of Slovenia's flag carrier Adria Airways to German fund 4K Invest.

Senegal state-owned television has said Turkish Airlines is the front-runner to take a stake in Air Senegal, a new national airline intended to replace the West African nation's now defunct, heavily indebted carrier Senegal Airlines.

Senegalese President Macky Sall was in Istanbul for the 13th Organization of Islamic Cooperation(OIC) summit last week. 

The Cypriot flag carrier suspended operations at midnight over a European Commission ruling that it had illegally received state aid.

Cyprus closed down its flag carrier Cyprus Airways on Friday after the European Commission ordered the struggling airline to pay back over 65 million euros in illegal state aid.

Turkish Airlines' Senior Vice President for Marketing and Sales, Ziya Taşkent, has said the company is willing to consider a joint venture in Macedonia aimed at setting up a new national carrier.

MAT, Macedonian Airlines, the last government-backed national carrier, collapsed in 2009. Mat Airways, Macedonia's last privately-backed national airline, folded in 2011.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic Thursday presented to the public the takeover contract by which United Arab Emirates' (UAE) national carrier UAE Etihad Airways took over Serbia’s national airline JAT Airways, now Air Serbia.

As of Friday, April 4, Davor Miseljic, member of the main board of the Serbia's national carrier Air Serbia, was no longer a Canadian national but a Serbian national. This is according to the website of the Serbian business registry.