{"id":5465,"date":"2008-10-14T12:50:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T09:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:17:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:17:19","slug":"turkish-airlines-launches-tender-for-105-planes-invites-boeing-airbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/10\/14\/turkish-airlines-launches-tender-for-105-planes-invites-boeing-airbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines launches tender for 105 planes, invites Boeing, Airbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5467\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkish Airlines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Turkey\u2019s flag carrier, Turkish Airlines (THY), launched a tender to buy 105 planes, including 30 optional, in 15 years and invited American Boeing as well as European Airbus to offer bids.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">HY, a member of Star Alliance, said the tender would include 35 long-haul with an option for 10 aircraft and 70 short and medium-haul with an option for 20, the company said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It also said THY is looking at Airbus A350, A330, A320 and Boeing 787, 777, 737.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;The delivery timetable, expected to start in the second quarter of 2010, would be an important criteria alongside the price in the evaluation of the companies&#8217; bids,&#8221; the statement said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Turkey<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u2019s fast-growing flag carrying had increased its passenger number at an average rate of around 20 percent in recent years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Hot News Turkey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s flag carrier, Turkish Airlines (THY), launched a tender to buy 105 planes, including 30 optional, in 15 years and invited American Boeing as well as European Airbus to offer bids. HY, a member of Star Alliance, said the tender would include 35 long-haul with an option for 10 aircraft and 70 short and medium-haul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[737],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-turkish-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}