MNG Airlines is a Turkish cargo airline headquartered in Istanbul based at Istanbul Airport.
History
The airline was established by Mehmet Nazif Günal in 1997 and started operations on 30 November 1997. Transatlantic services began in 1998 with a flight from Frankfurt to Toronto, followed by scheduled services to the USA on 8 November 1998. In mid-2002 passenger operations were added. In 2005 MNG won an award from Airbus for 100% reliability on the 30-year-old Airbus A300. On February 6, 2006 MNG ceased all passenger flights. Only cargo flights are being continued. In 2008, MNG Airlines acquired Slovenian cargo company Solinair.
In 2020, MNG began the operation of its twice-weekly freighter service linking Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) in Germany and John F. Kennedy International (JFK) in New York. The new flight is an expansion of the carrier's routes flown from CGN, which include flights to Istanbul Atatürk Airport (ISL) on behalf of Air France, and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) for its own operations.
Destinations
MNG Airlines operates scheduled and charter services within Europe, and to the Far East, the Middle East and the United States destinations. It operated scheduled freighter services to the following destinations as of July 2013:
Africa
Algiers - Houari Boumediene Airport
Oran - Ahmed Ben Bella Airport
Tripoli – Mitiga International Airport
Tunis - Tunis–Carthage International Airport
Asia
Manama – Bahrain International Airport
Baghdad - Baghdad International Airport
Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion Airport
Karachi - Jinnah International Airport
Lahore - Allama Iqbal International Airport
Doha - Hamad International Airport
Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi International Airport
Dubai - Al Maktoum International Airport
Europe
Zagreb – Zagreb Airport
Paris – Charles de Gaulle Airport
Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport
Leipzig – Leipzig/Halle Airport
Munich – Munich Airport
Amsterdam – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Istanbul – Istanbul Airport (Hub)
London – London Luton Airport
Birmingham – Birmingham Airport
North America
New York City - John F. Kennedy International Airport
Fleet
As of October 2021, the MNG Airlines fleet comprises the following aircraft: