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Turkish Airlines, Europe?s fourth-largest carrier, has announced it carried some 28.5 million passengers in the first six months of the year, an 8.5 percent increase over the same period of the previous year, in a written statement to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) on July 14.

A Turkish Airlines flight from Bangkok made an emergency landing in New Delhi after a written bomb threat was found in a toilet on the Airbus A330 passenger jet carrying 134 passengers, the airline and Indian security sources said.
   

A Turkish Airlines airplane traveling from Istanbul to London made an emergency landing in Belgrade late on Monday "because of a suspicious iPad."

Aegean Airlines has scheduled extra flights from London to Brussels so that Greeks living abroad can come to Greece to vote in the referendum due to take place on July 5, 2015. Specifically:

Turkish Airlines (THY), the country's flag carrier, will offer direct flights between Istanbul and Atlanta beginning in May 2016.

The new destination will be the airline's second to the southeastern United States following THY's decision to open a route to Miami.

SunExpress, a joint venture company of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, will increase the number of its flights to 700 a week this season, said Paul Schwaiger, the company's managing director, at a press conference held in Antalya June 23. 

"Our company has carried more than 63 million passengers since the date we were established 25 years ago.

A cyber attack against Polish flagship carrier LOT grounded more than 1,400 passengers at Warsaw's Frederic Chopin Airport on June 21 in what an airline spokesman described as the "first attack of its kind".

AEGEAN, a member of the Star Alliance family won the “Best Regional Airline in Europe for 2015″ award during the Skytrax World Airline Awards in Paris. At the same time, it also won second place in the “World Regional Airline” category.

Turkish Airlines has been named the "Best Airline in Europe" for the fifth year in a row by Skytrax, which is recognized by the aviation industry for its global ranking system which tracks customer satisfaction of airlines service and performance around the world, the company said in a written statement on June 16. 

The total number of passengers carried by Turkish Airlines increased by 8.7 percent in the first five months of the year, rising to 23.2 million from 21.4 million in the same period of 2014. 

The company saw an increase in the number of domestic and international passengers, by 10.5 percent and 7.4 percent respectively.