PLatin Wings

PLatin Wings at a Glance
CEO	Halil Gürsoy
Chief Officers
Salary Percentage	15-30%
Alliance Affiliation	World Alliance
Founded	2 March, 2008
Last updated on 10 March, 2009
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PLatin Wings is an airline based in Mauritius(FIMP) with hubs at Antalya(LTAI) and Ankara(LTAC). PLatin Wİngs is a founding member of the World Alliance which is the oldest alliance in FSAirlines. PLatin Wings operates a mixed fleet of Boeing and Airbus aircraft to 55 destinations all around the world.

History

PLatin Wings was founded in Istanbul, Turkey on 2th March 2008 by Halil Gürsoy. PLatin Wings started operations with a flight from Istanbul to Izmir with a leased DC-3. After a few weeks PLatin Wings leased an Airbus A380 from an airline in Colombia which was a milestone for the airline. With the lease of the A380, the airline started a rapid growth which gave the airline the opportuntiy to buy new aircrafts and open up new routes.

In April 2008, the airline opened a new subsidary charter airline based in Antalya, which was called `PLatin Travel`. The new charter airline started operations with a flight from Antalya to Bodrum with a B737-300.

On May the 4th, the airline`s board of directors decided to move the airlines main base to Mauritius(FIMP) and decided to restructre the airline by creating a holding company called `PLatin Wings Co.` based in Mauritius. The holding company would own the two airlines which were based in Mauritius and Antalya. The mainline airline which was based in Mauritius was called `PLatin Wİngs Mauritius`, while PLatin Travel remained the same.

On the 1st of June, the board of directing decided to create a new subsidary airline which was based in Ankara called `Anatolion Express`. In September 2008, cargo operations started with a new subsidary airline called `PLatin Cargo`.

Now the corporations consists of one mainline airline and three subsidary airline, operating a fleet of 73 aircrafts with more than 60 destinations.