Turkish-German carrier, SunExpress has issued a Request for Proposals (RPF) seeking new strategic and long-term airport partners in the UK and Ireland as it looks to rebuild passenger traffic following the pandemic.
The full-service airline recently announced 23 new routes between Turkey and destinations in Europe and the Middle East. It is now actively looking to collaborate with airports to add additional capacity to its summer 2022 schedule from booth unserved and underserved airports in the UK and Ireland.
“We have identified the UK and Ireland as our next strategic markets that are sizeable enough to support our growing fleet while also fitting our sales and pricing strategy,” said Wilken Bellmann, Head of Network Planning and Scheduling at SunExpress.
“According to our data, it is the third-largest market to the destinations we are serving in Turkey and had shown the most consistent and sustainable growth in passenger numbers, before the COVID-19 pandemic,” he added.
The RPF follows the success of similar proposals hosted on the Route Exchange platform on behalf of Canadian LCC, Swoop, and Utah-based ULCC, Breeze Airways in June 2020 and July 2021 respectively. The former has resulted in various new destinations being added to Swoop’s summer 2021 schedule.
