Turkish Airlines is lanning to set up its sales office in Gurgaon and tie up with various travel agents to service the Indian market. The airline has ended its ticket bookings contract with InterGlobe Air Transport as per a report in Financial Chronicle.

Adnan Aykac, General Manager, Northern & Eastern India, at Turkish Airlines said, “Our contract with InterGlobe ends in June this year. We have decided not to extend it as we are setting up our own office in Gurgaon. We’ll have separate teams for marketing, sales and ticketing. About 25 per cent of our sales is from out of Delhi and for that we would tie up with travel agents”.

The carrier, which has been in India for the last eight years, operates a daily flight from Delhi & Mumbai to Istanbul with a load factor of 75 per cent. Aykac said the company was studying other potential markets in India and would consider adding new flights soon. “India has huge potential in terms of two-way traffic. We want to have a load factor of 80 per cent, which is quite easy to achieve,” he said.

The carrier has a fleet size of 200 aircraft. It has ordered 10 Airbus 330 aircraft, of which it has already got delivery of six. “The remaining four would come by September 2011. These new aircraft will increase our capacity by 10 per cent. We would deploy the new fleet on Indian routes with better configuration. Even the economy class would be redesigned and there would be more personal space,” he said.

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