Pegasus Airlines, CEO, Güliz Öztürk at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit World 2024
Pegasus Airlines, CEO, Güliz Öztürk spoke to CAPA TV at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit World 2024, in Belgrade, about latest industry trends and company developments.
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I mean that depends on actually your fleet plan. When you talk about growth, the aircraft inclusion into the fleet is the first parameter. Of course, now this year we are receiving 16 new aircraft into the fleet. We are running now 112 aircraft ageing, 4.5 years old. Very young fleet, and we have another 52 aircraft that we'll be receiving until the end of 2029. So as long as the demand is there and we have the infrastructural capacity at our base in Turkey, I'm really pretty sure that we can execute our growth plan in line with our fleet plan. In terms of staff, recruitment wise, the Covid period was managed very well in Turkey. So we keep all our people with us during the Covid period that two and a half years. So we did not have that staff shortage, which the others have experienced. Actually, that was the wise thing to do.
In Turkey, we did that and other companies also did the same. Maybe the challenge is the deliveries now where the aviation colleagues we are talking about, but when you look at Pega Airlines, yes, we had delays, but it was like weeks. I mean, it wasn't much so on our side, that wasn't something manageable. I have to say, Turkey is growing in terms of tourism, different segments. Customer segments are growing also in the tourism as a whole, because it's not only sea and sand anymore, it's like cultural tourism is growing. Business travel is growing to Turkey and education and health travel is growing. So we are far strong because we have more than 3 million people living abroad in Europe, Turkish people. So there is a fierce competition, yes, within, but although airlines of Turkey has grown successfully up until now, so I believe, I mean the markets, as long as Turkey is having such a promising travel destinations, those airlines will also including us, we'll find the market to grow. The biggest challenge is maybe naming one is difficult, but I may say the infrastructural capacity issues is one in terms of operational issues. The second one is of course, the costs rising. This inflationary pressure and the geopolitical tension looking forward.
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