Onur Havayolları Taşımacılık A.Ş. was established on 14 April 1992 and launched its first flight to the Ercan Airport in Northern Republic of Cyprus on 14 May 1992 with a type A-320 aircraft. Subsequently, Onur Air expanded its fleet with a second aircraft in July 1992, third aircraft in December 1992 and the fourth plane in April 1993.
Onur Air increased its passenger volume as a result of cooperation with Ten Tour, one of the leading companies in tourism sector, in 1994. In order to meet the demand increase in its business volume, Onur Air acquired the fifth and sixth aircrafts, both of which were type A-320, in April 1995. The fleet was further grown with addition of the seventh aircraft in July 1995. Increasing the number of aircrafts in its fleet with 2 more A-320 aircrafts as sub-charters in the same year, Onur Air had 9 aircrafts, 1.556 seat capacity and 512 personnel by 1995, which was 150 when the company was first established.
After being fully acquired by Ten Tour in 1996, Onur Air added three A-320 aircrafts with a larger passenger capacity. As two A-300 aircrafts were added to the fleet in the same year, the seat capacity and number of personnel of Onur Air increased to 2.192 and 725 respectively.
Onur Air also continued its growth in 1997, and sub-chartered ex-factory five MD-88 and one A-300 aircrafts from the American company Mc Donnell Dougles. Onur Air had 16 aircrafts in its fleet and reached to 3.503 seat capacity by the beginning of the 1997 season, and as a company with 912 employees became a significant component of the Turkish economy and the business world.
Despite being a relatively young company, by 1997, Onur Air had acquired the expertise to provide service and technical consulting about type A-320 aircrafts to other airlines. Onur Air had to decrease its size as the other companies due to the economic and social problems experienced in Turkey and worldwide in early 1988. Due to recession, Onur Air had to reduce the number of the planes in its fleet to 13 in 1998 and then to 9 in 1999.
Onur Air’s objective was to get out of the crisis as a leader of its field; and thus, lent its flight teams to foreign companies, and as the Hajj period began, got through the period with minimum loss and started to grow again in 2000. Thanks to the timely measures taken, Onur Air continued its operations as the largest private airline company of Turkey again, and by adding 2 A-300 aircrafts to its fleet in 2000, increased the number of planes to 11 and seat capacity to 2.560. With addition of another A-300 in November 2001, the company had 12 planes and 2.883 seats serving its passengers.
Onur Air continued its stable growth and increased the number of aircrafts in its fleet to 14 in 2002 and then to 20, 24, and 28 in the subsequent years. The company had 31 aircrafts and 4.012 seat capacity by 2006, then 29 and 25 aircrafts by 2007 and 2008 respectively. Onur Air currently provides services with a fleet of 22 aircrafts.
INFANT AND CHILD PASSENGERS:
A Child younger than 3 years old (0-24 months) as of the beginning of the travel is considered an infant.
An Infant passenger younger than 3 can travel only if accompanied by a parent and is not assigned a cabin attendant as a companion. Infant fare is charged for such passengers.
An Infant younger than 7 days can not board the plane even if accompanied by parents. In accordance with in-cabin safety guidelines, an adult can accompany only one infant.
An Infant aged 3 and older but younger than 7 can not travel without a companion. He/she is allowed to travel together with an adult and is not assigned a cabin attendant as a companion. Child fare is charged for such passengers.
An Infant aged 7 or older but younger than 13 can travel without a companion and are charged child fare. Child passenger without a companion can travel subject to written permission of a parent or legal guardian (UM form has to be completed at the airport). A child passenger without a companion is escorted by a ground staff to the aircraft and given into custody of the cabin chief. Parents or legal guardian of the child passenger have to stay at the airport until the plane takes off. Cabin crew will arrange the ground staff to give the child passenger into custody of the person designated to pick up the child at the destination point.
PREGNANT PASSENGERS:
Passengers who are in 28 to 34 (included) weeks of pregnancy require a doctor report stating that “the person is fit to travel”. The report must have been obtained not before than 7 days prior to departure date. Laboring mothers who passed their 34th week are not allowed to board even if there is a doctor report stating no travel restriction is necessary.
PET TRAVEL
Pets are not allowed to travel by Onur Air aircrafts.
TRAVELERS WITH DISABILITY:
The passengers with doctor reports or Disability ID Card issued by the Prime Ministry Administration for Disabled People are provided with wheel chairs and/or ambulift services free of charge. Otherwise, TRL 20 and TRL 80 will be charged and invoiced for wheel chair and ambulift services respectively until further notice. The passengers who are not willing to pay the said fees shall not enjoy this service. Onur Air does not provide travel service for ill passengers who have to travel in stretchers. Visually impaired passengers can travel with trained service animals. Disabled passengers who will not be able to follow instructions of the cabin crew in case of emergency can not travel without a companion.
ILL PASSENGERS:
Ill passengers (cardiac patients, individuals receiving medical operation, etc.) can travel provided that he/she can submit a doctor report stating that “the person is fit to travel by plane” issued not earlier than 1 week before the departure date.
OFFICIAL ID CARD REQUIREMENT:
A passenger has to produce an official ID Card (Identity Card, Driver’s License, Passport etc) acceptable by authorities in order to board the plane. Otherwise, he/she will not allow to get on the plane (Infants aged 0 to 2 years and accompanied by one of the parents can travel with a birth certificate for the first 1 months on condition that police officers raise no objection)
OBJECTIONABLE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS:
Foodstuff such as olive oil, honey, jam, pectin, and liquid cheese; compressed gas (flammable, non-flammable and toxic), abrasive materials (acids, alkali, wet battery), explosives, ammunition, fireworks, signal rocket, flammable liquid and solid materials (burning or heating fuel, matches, and easily blazing materials), irritants, oxidation materials (bleaching powder and hydrogen peroxide), poison, radioactive materials, other restricted materials (mercury or magnetic materials) can not be transported in passenger luggage unless permitted by the carrier.
