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Turkish Airlines the national flag carrier airline of Turkey. The headquarters of Turkish Airlines General Management Building is at the Atatürk Airport in Istanbul. The airline connects destination from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas to Istanbul, making it the largest airline in the world by number of destinations served, as well as the largest airline to provide non-stop flights from a single airport in Europe. Since April 2008, Turkish Airlines has been a member of the Star Alliance. While Istanbul is its main base, Esenboğa International Airport in Ankara, Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in eastern Istanbul and Adnan Menderes Airport in Izmir are its secondary bases.

As of December 2016, Turkish Airlines flies to 296 destinations in 119 countries of the world.

Skytrax awarded Turkish Airlines for the Best European Airline, Best Airline od Southern Europe, and the World’s Best Premium Economy Class Airline Seat for three consecutive years in 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively. It reserved its standing as the top European airline in 2014, 2015 and 2016, in this manner holding the trophy for six years in a row. Additionally, Turkish Airlines was awarded the Airline of the Year by Air Transport News in 2013.

Keeping firm by its pledge, Turkish Airline went on a shopping spree in 2004 and expanded its current fleet by buying 36 air jets from Airbus at a price of $ 2.8 billion and an additional order of 15 Boeing 737s. It spent a further $ 350 million to enhance, better equip and better train its mechanical engineering staff to take care of its fleet and to provide security assurances to its passengers, customers and stakeholders. A new technical training facility was built in eastern Istanbul at what is now called the Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, complete with a training college and flight simulators The training facility manages the maintenance of including airframes, landing gears, APUs and other subsystems. It provided maintenance for not only its own aircrafts but also third party airlines and clients.

In 2004, Turkish Airline went through a privatization program. Before, the company was publicly competing in an open market, but was 98% of it was still owned by the Turkish government. After the privatization the government still holds 49.12% of its shares and raising revenues for the organization. The country’s booming tourism also helps the airline to create profit out of thin air.

In Addition, Turkish Airlines showed interest in the rebuilding and modernization of the Somali Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, in December 2011. The country was war stricken after the civil war and was helped out by the Turkish Government’s initiative of conflict management. Turkish Airline became the first airline to land planes at Mogadishu since the civil war in the 1990s.

Currently, Turkish Airlines has 11 Airbus A319-100, 29 Airbus A320-200, 68 Airbus A321-200, 20 Airbus A330-200, 35 Airbus A330-300, 4 Airbus A340-300, 1 Boeing 737-700, 110 Boeing 737-800, 15 Boeing 737-900ER, 33 Boeing 777-300ER for its passenger services and for its cargo fleet 1 Airbus A300-600F 2 Airbus A310-300F 9 Airbus A330-200F 1 Boeing 747-400F totaling to 339 aircrafts.