Onur Air (Turkish: Onur Air Taşımacılık AŞ, often styled OnurAir or Onurair) is a low-cost airline with its headquarters in the Technical Hangar B at Istanbul Atatürk Airport in Yeşilköy, Istanbul, Turkey. It operates mostly domestic scheduled services, as well as a wide range of charter flights out of its base at Atatürk Airport.
Onur Air was established on 14 April 1992 and started revenue operations using a wet-leased Airbus A320 with a flight to Ercan in North Cyprus on 14 May of that year. «Onur» means proud, self-esteem in Turkish. Over the next years, the Onurair fleet grew, so that by the end of 1995, it included nine aircraft. Previously its head office was in Florya, Bakırköy, Istanbul.
In 1996, Ten Tour acquired ownership of the airline. By 1997 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 twin-jet airliners had been added to the fleet. Due to a recession, Onur Air had to reduce the size of its fleet to 13 in 1998, and then to 9 in 1999. Since then the airline has expanded again.
Onur Air offers scheduled flights (excluding charter services) to the following destinations.
Iran
Isfahan - Isfahan International Airport
Tabriz – Tabriz International Airport
Tehran – Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport
Azerbaijan
Nakhchivan – Nakhchivan International Airport
Iraq
Erbil – Erbil International Airport
Austria
Vienna – Vienna International Airport
France
Paris – Charles de Gaulle Airport
Germany
Berlin – Tegel Airport
Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport
Frankfurt – Frankfurt Airport
Munich - Munich Airport
Nuremberg - Nuremberg Airport Seasonal
Münster - Münster Osnabrück International Airport
Stuttgart – Stuttgart Airport
Netherlands
Amsterdam – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Russia
Chelyabinsk – Balandino Airport (begins 29 April 2017)
Grozny – Grozny Airport (begins 29 March 2017)
Moscow
Sheremetyevo International Airport
Zhukovsky International Airport (begins 2 May 2017)
Nalchik – Nalchik Airport
Samara – Kurumoch Airport (begins 3 May 2017)
Nizhny Novgorod – Strigino Airport (begins 3 May 2017)
Volgograd – Gumrak Airport (begins 3 May 2017)
Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport (begins 28 April 2017)
Turkey
Adana – Şakirpaşa Airport
Antalya – Antalya Airport
Bodrum – Milas-Bodrum Airport
Dalaman – Dalaman Airport
Elazığ – Elazığ Airport
Ercan – Ercan Airport
Gaziantep – Oğuzeli Airport
Istanbul – Atatürk Airport Hub
Izmir – Adnan Menderes Airport
Kayseri – Erkilet International Airport
Malatya – Erhaç Airport
Samsun – Çarşamba Airport
Şanlıurfa – Şanlıurfa GAP Airport
Trabzon – Trabzon Airport
Ukraine
Odessa – Odessa International Airport
As of July 2016, the Onur Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:
Onur Air has also operated the following aircraft types:
Incidents and accidents
On 17 June 2003, Onur Air Flight 2263, an McDonnell Douglas MD-88 (registration TC-ONP) overshot the runway at Groningen Airport Eelde following an aborted take-off. There were no injuries, but the airline was accused of security breaches.
On 12 May 2005, Onur Air was denied access to Dutch airspace for a month. Several incidents were the cause of the suspension of the airline. Negotiations took place between the Dutch authorities and Onur Air and on 24 May 2005 Onur Air had permission to fly from and to the Netherlands again.
On 15 September 2006, the pilot of an Onur Air charter flight from Antalya Airport to Bristol Airport scared his passengers prior to take-off when he refused to fly the aircraft, claiming it was unsafe.
On 1 January 2007, the cargo hold of a McDonnell Douglas MD-88 aircraft burst open upon landing at Atatürk International Airport, spilling luggage onto the runway.
On 7 September 2007, an Airbus A321 aircraft lost cabin pressure on a charter flight from Dalaman Airport to Birmingham Airport, resulting in an emergency landing at Atatürk International Airport. Passenger reports included a smoking engine and broken down oxygen masks.
On 20 August 2011, an Onur Air pilot forgot to contact Munich Air Traffic Control and engaged the quick reaction air defence of both Germany and Austria to send four Eurofighter Typhoons to intercept the company's A321.
