Kuzu Airlines Cargo

Infobox Airline
airline = Kuzu Airlines Cargo

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fleet_size = 4
destinations = "N/A"
IATA = GO
ICAO = KZU
callsign = KUZU CARGO
parent = KUZU HAVAYOLLARI KARGO TASIMACILIGI A.S.
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founded = 2004
headquarters = Istanbul, Turkey
key_people = Fatih Yurdakul (Managing Director)
hubs = Atatürk International Airport
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website = http://www.kuzuairlines.com/

Kuzu Airlines Cargo is a cargo airline based in Istanbul, Turkey. It operates international cargo services. Its main base is Atatürk International Airport.

History

The airline was established in 2004 and started operations in June 2004. It was originally named Baron Hava Kargo, but was rebranded and renamed to Kuzu Airlines Cargo in October 2004. It is owned by the Kuzu family and has 170 employees (at March 2007). In May 2008, Kuzu Cargo sold two of their A300B4's to Iran Air and fleet reduced in size from six to four aircraft. During November 2008, three further Airbus A310 aircraft will be added to the fleet from Emirates SkyCargo.

cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 103 | date= 2007-04-03]

Destinations

Kuzu Airlines Cargo operates regular cargo flights from Istanbul to Estonia. It also serves a number of international destinations through interline agreements with other carriers. One aircraft stays as a hot spare and operate for Air Hong Kong to Asian destinations.

Fleet

The Kuzu Airlines Cargo fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2006) [Flight International, 3-9 October 2006] :

*4 Airbus A300B4F (operated for Air Macau)
*1 Airbus A310-300F (2 more to be added in Oct and Dec 2008) [http://www.aircargonews.net/article.asp?art_id=3636]

References

External links

* [http://www.kuzuairlines.com/ Kuzu Airlines Cargo]