Turkey’s national flag carrier Turkish Airlines (THY) has ordered 13 new Airbus aircrafts.
THY has placed orders for ten “A321” passenger planes and three “A330-200f” cargo aircrafts, a statement from Airbus said on Tuesday.
The company said that the total catalogue price of the aircrafts was around 1.6 billion USD.
In 2009 and 2010, THY had ordered 27 planes from the Airbus group.
The airline company, which currently has 156 planes in its fleet, desires to increase such figure to 196 by the year 2015.
THY has also increased the number of its passengers by 25 percent to nearly 30 million in the last two years.
The Istanbul-based airlines, which is a Star Alliance member, is one of the fastest growing and prosperous carriers in the world.
THY posted 389 million Euro of profit in 2009, becoming one of the top companies, following Air China and Ryan Air, in the world that recorded the highest profit in 2009.
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