ANKARA – Turkish Airlines implemented two new projects to provide betterservice for intercontinental business class passengers, the national flagcarrier announced Thursday.
“Awarded many times for its in-flight catering services, Turkish Airlineshas carried its service a step further and implemented a new projectenabling business class passengers to choose their meals before theflight,” the airline said in a written statement.
“Meal selection before flight” service will be available in severalintercontinental flights departing from Istanbul to global destinations —including Atlanta, Boston, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, BuenosAires, Tokyo, New York etc., the country’s national flag carrier said.
“Business class passengers can view the meal details and visuals of themain dishes and make their choices on the webpage and/or mobileapplication,” it stated.
The service enables the passengers to choose the meal within the periodstarting from one week before flight date until the last 48 hours, thestatement added.
The airline named the other project as “dine on demand service”, allowingits business class passengers in intercontinental flights to dine at anytime they wish during the flight.
“Turkish Airlines passengers will have the opportunity to experience a moreflexible flight by determining the time they want to rest and dine,” theairline said.
Dine on demand service will be available in all intercontinental nightflights departing from and landing on Istanbul, it added.
“This privileged service concept applied by very few airline companies inthe world allows passengers to get a more customized service,” it stated.
Turkish Airlines, founded in 1933, flies to more than 300 destinations inover 120 countries. By the end of Aug. 2018, the airline had 326 aircraft —92 of them wide-body along with 216 narrow-body aircraft and 18 cargoplanes.
Last year, the airline carried 68.6 million passengers with a 79.1 percentseat occupancy rate.
According to the airline’s year-end targets, the company expects to carry75 million passengers — including 33 million on domestic routes, 42 millionon international routes — with around an 81-percent passenger load factor.
The airline — staffed with 25,000 people, including more than 4,500 pilots,— earned some 24.4 billion Turkish liras ($5.9 billion) of total revenue inthe first half of this year. (AA)