AtlasGlobal (Istanbul Airport) will resume scheduled flight operations on Monday, December 16, five days ahead of its previously announced return. The Turkish leisure specialist suspended regular flights on November 26 citing the need to curb losses and restructure. However, it maintained charter services with two A321-200s serving domestic Turkish destinations as well Tehran Imam Khomeini and Baghdad.
In a statement to the Sabah news agency, Atlasglobal said its revised business plan will see it focus more on charters as opposed to scheduled flights. It did not disclose which routes would be dropped as part of the adjustment.
Prior to the suspension, AtlasGlobal had served 23 cities across Turkey as well as Russia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Armenia France, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Germany. According to the ch-aviation fleets module, it overall remaining fleet encompasses three A321-200s and two A330-200s.
