MNG Airlines

MNG Airlines is a Turkish cargo airline headquartered in Istanbul based at Istanbul Airport.

History
The airline was established by Mehmet Nazif Günal in 1997 and started operations on 30 November 1997. Transatlantic services began in 1998 with a flight from Frankfurt to Toronto, followed by scheduled services to the USA on 8 November 1998. In mid-2002 passenger operations were added. In 2005 MNG won an award from Airbus for 100% reliability on the 30-year-old Airbus A300. In 2006, MNG ceased all passenger flights with cargo only flights are being continued. In 2008, MNG Airlines acquired Slovenian cargo company Solinair.

In 2020, MNG began the operation of its twice-weekly freighter service linking Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) in Germany and John F. Kennedy International (JFK) in New York. The new flight is an expansion of the carrier's routes flown from CGN, which include flights to Istanbul Atatürk Airport (ISL) on behalf of Air France, and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) for its own operations.

Ownership
Ghita Holding (member of Abu Dhabi’s IHC mega-group) acquired a 44 per cent stake in MNG Havayollari ve Tasimacilik A.S. (commonly known as ‘MNG Airlines’) for $211.2 million.

Destinations
MNG Airlines operates scheduled and charter services within Europe, and to the Far East, the Middle East and the United States destinations. It operated scheduled freighter services to the following destinations as of July 2013:

Africa

 * 🇩🇿 Algeria
 * Algiers - Houari Boumediene Airport
 * Oran - Ahmed Ben Bella Airport
 * 🇱🇾 Libya
 * Tripoli – Mitiga International Airport
 * 🇹🇳 Tunisia
 * Tunis - Tunis–Carthage International Airport

Asia

 * 🇧🇭 Bahrain
 * Manama – Bahrain International Airport
 * 🇮🇶 Iraq
 * Baghdad - Baghdad International Airport
 * 🇮🇱 Israel
 * Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion Airport
 * 🇵🇰 Pakistan
 * Karachi - Jinnah International Airport
 * Lahore - Allama Iqbal International Airport
 * 🇶🇦 Qatar
 * Doha - Hamad International Airport
 * 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
 * Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi International Airport
 * Dubai - Al Maktoum International Airport

Europe

 * 🇭🇷 Croatia
 * Zagreb – Zagreb Airport
 * 🇫🇷 France
 * Paris – Charles de Gaulle Airport
 * 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport
 * Leipzig – Leipzig/Halle Airport
 * Munich – Munich Airport
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands
 * Amsterdam – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey
 * Istanbul – Istanbul Airport (Hub)
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * London – London Luton Airport
 * Birmingham – Birmingham Airport
 * East Midlands - East Midlands Airport

North America

 * 🇺🇸 United States
 * New York City - John F. Kennedy International Airport

Fleet
As of May 2024, the MNG Airlines fleet comprises the following aircraft: