SunExpress (XQ, Antalya) will launch services out of Antalya operated with five A320 aircraft leased from Lithuanian ACMI/charter specialist Avion Express (X9, Vilnius) on June 1 according to Airline Route.

The Turkish leisure specialist will deploy the Airbus twinjets to Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg, CH, Hannover, Zurich (all commencing June 1), Düsseldorf, Münster/Osnabrück (both June 2), Stuttgart Manfred Rommel (June 9), Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg (all June 15), Copenhagen Kastrup (June 19), Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (June 24), and Brussels National (June 26).

The aircraft will supplement the Turkish carrier's own Boeing fleet, consisting of fifty-one B737-800s. Nineteen of these aircraft are operated on behalf of Turkish Airlines, while one flies for AtlasGlobal. Its subsidiary SunExpress Deutschland (Frankfurt International) operates a further twelve B737-800s, including one on behalf of Eurowings. The German unit also operates seven A330-200s on behalf of the Lufthansa Group unit.