Turkish to deploy widebodies for Pristina charters

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Turkish Airlines will deploy wide-body aircraft to Pristina to operate charter flights from Medina during the upcoming Hajj pilgrimage. The Turkish carrier will run two flights on both June 16 and June 17 from the Saudi city. On June 16, the morning flight from Medina, departing at 06:55 local time, will utilise a 305-seat Airbus A330-300 aircraft. In the evening, departing at 19:20, a 492-seat Boeing 777-300ER will be deployed to Pristina. On the following day, the same aircraft will be used, however, the morning service will operate with the B777-300ER, while the evening operation with the A330-300.

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  1. Anonymous10:39

    That is one high capacity B777

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  2. Anonymous10:47

    A 777-300 with almost 500 seats? That's impressive. Is it TK's bird or leased?

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    1. Anonymous10:55

      TK. They use them on domestic flights mostly.

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  3. Anonymous10:57

    Cooool 🤩

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  4. Anonymous11:01

    They already did a flight to Jeddah this week with 777 in the following itinerary IST-PRN-JED.

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  5. Anonymous11:07

    492 seats on B777-300?!?!

    Is this mistake? I traveled this aircraft many times, and there was always below 400 seats? MAybe tis is 392 in TK?

    500 seats in B777-300 is like 7 people in passenger car ;)

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    1. EX-YU Aviation11:15

      It is not a mistake. Turkish Airlines has filed this capacity and has a number of such B777-300ER aircraft in its fleet.

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    2. Anonymous12:56

      Ok.

      I may be wrong since I concern that 100 people more on board means more lavatories, more staf to serve, than more luggage, more time needed to board 500 people. I do not know is it so...

      I wonder - if this kind of plane has same number of exits?

      If yes, I imagine that must be horror movie once plain landed to disembark once plain landed.

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    3. Anonymous13:16

      1256, you go on and on and on... Even after someone more knowledgeable has explained it all you that you could have done yourself using the internet... But no... On and on and on...

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    4. Anonymous14:55

      TC-LKA flied on Tuesday IST-PRN-JED which has 400 seats.
      TC-LKF flied on Tuesday MED-PRN and today PRN-IST. This on has 492 seats. My guess is that this one had an maintenance issue that made THY to send TC-LKA for the JED bound flight.

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    5. Anonymous14:59

      TC-LON (A330-300) flied on Tuesday IST-PRN-JED. This one has 367 seats.

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    6. Anonymous19:01

      Anon14:55, yes, that's one with rudder hydraulic leak

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  6. Anonymous11:44

    Prishtina keeps winning. First Edelweiss... Now Turkish Airlines?! I know it's temporary but still is a win. Tirana should note these achievements

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    1. Anonymous11:51

      PRN does not compete with TIA. SKP is the closest competitor.

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    2. Anonymous12:12

      TIA never had a wide body aircraft. Only when the summit was on 16th of May, president of France, Turkey and some other country came with a wide body aircraft. But that doesn't count. SKP is actually somehow worse than PRN.

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    3. Anonymous13:17

      I am sure TIA is very jealous of these mighty achievements

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    4. Anonymous13:46

      Anon12:12, reason maybe that not many people fly to Hajj from SKP so no need for such cramped airplanes

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    5. Anonymous16:44

      TIA would be very jelaous on SKP and PRN for this wide bodies aircrafts this summer 🫣😁

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    6. Anonymous18:36

      You will be a lot more jealous next summer ;)

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    7. Anonymous18:39

      With A380 to TIA ?

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    8. Anonymous20:04

      At this rate TIA will get A380 sooner than little SKP gets DXB flights 🤣

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    9. Anonymous21:16

      I don’t understand why TIA is brought into discussion when speaking of exyu airports. For most of exyu, TIA is at another league regarding destinations served and no of passengers. In 2025, it had 1m more passengers than ZAG, PRN and LJU combined.
      The only comparisons that make sense are PRN-SKP and LJU-ZAG, as both have overlapping catchment areas and serve to relatively similar passengers types. Both have a clear winner.

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    10. Anonymous21:53

      Very true!

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    11. Anonymous06:23

      Yes not only A380 Emirates will also open a base next year 😂
      SKP and Macedonia are landlocked country ,Albania is on the sea , which country on the sea doesnt have strong air travel ? Comparing without sense🤮

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    12. Anonymous10:10

      Slovenia doesn't a strong air travel

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    13. Anonymous11:42

      06:23 You were the one who brought TIA into the conversation

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  7. Anonymous16:43

    19 july and 27th TK will also deploy for the first time A350-900 to SKP with 329 seats😊

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    1. Anonymous16:54

      It was already reported
      https://www.exyuaviation.com/2025/04/turkish-airlines-schedules-wide-body.html

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    2. Anonymous17:31

      I miss that information , thank you alot.

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  8. Anonymous16:49

    So this is why this days I see Freebird flights to Jeddah from SKP. It was so weird for me. Today they have 2 flights , one is at 16:40 other is schedule for 18:15 , aicraft type is A320

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  9. Anonymous17:20

    Are these high capacity 777s the ones that were leased to IndiGo?

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    1. Anonymous21:51

      Those leased to IndiGo have abnormal 531 seats!

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