Air Partner Stretches its Reach to Turkey

Air Partner Turkey, located in Istanbul, will be a new avenue of business for the global air charter company’s private jet activity, including its pre-paid 25-hour JetCard scheme, which has seen early success in the Middle East. JetCard was recently bolstered with two new categories (Very Light Jet and Super Mid Size). As a result the selection of jets on offer to charter is the widest available of any jet card today and these two new categories are available to Middle East cardholders when they fly within Europe.

The Turkey office will also be able to call on a wide range of jets for charter, mirroring the activity of other Air Partner offices around the world. It will also be the sales representative for Air Partner’s Commercial Jet Division, which charters aircraft from 20 to 500 seats for groups of all sizes. Additionally it will handle all air cargo activities, an important and growing market in the region.

Air Partner Turkey is headed by Serkan Topcu, formerly of cargo logistics company Schenker Logistics in Istanbul. He is joined by Emir Ozdabak and Gunnes Nomaler, both of whom have a wealth of experience in aviation charter.

Dubai-based Kevin Ducksbury, Director Middle East and Asia, commented: “The creation of a new base in Turkey fits within the Air Partner Group’s strategy to strengthen our presence in the Middle East and Asia regions, while Istanbul is ideally located as the bridge between our established operations in Europe and our growing ventures in the Middle East.”