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MNG Airlines

Logo: MNG Airlines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Airline of Turkey

MNG Airlines is a Turkish cargo and passenger charter airline headquartered in Istanbul based at Istanbul Airport.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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MNG Airlines, TC-MCD, Airbus A300B4-605R(F) (44385231135)
Photo: Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

MNG Airlines is a Turkish cargo and passenger charter airline headquartered in Istanbul based at Istanbul Airport.2

Corporate structure

MNG Airlines sits at the top of its group. 2 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • MNG Airlines Istanbul

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

The airline was established by Mehmet Nazif Günal in 1997 and started operations on 30 November 1997. Transatlantic services began in 1998 with a flight from Frankfurt to Toronto, followed by scheduled services to the United States on 8 November 1998. In mid-2002, passenger operations were added. In 2005, MNG won an award from Airbus for 100% reliability on the 30-year-old Airbus A300. In 2006, MNG ceased all passenger flights; only cargo flights are being continued. In 2008, MNG Airlines acquired the Slovenian cargo company Solinair.

In 2020, MNG began the operation of its twice-weekly freighter service linking Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) in Germany and John F. Kennedy International (JFK) in New York. The new flight is an expansion of the carrier's routes flown from CGN, which include flights to Istanbul Atatürk Airport (ISL) on behalf of Air France, and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) for its own operations.

On Aug 9, 2023, MNG Airlines (MNGA) Cancels New York Stock Exchange Listing.

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Products and brands

Destinations

MNG Airlines operates scheduled and charter services within Europe, and to Asia and North America destinations. It operated scheduled freighter services to the following destinations as of July 2013:

Africa

Algeria

Algiers - Houari Boumediene Airport

Oran - Ahmed Ben Bella Airport

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Libya

Tripoli – Mitiga International Airport

Misrata - Misrata International Airport

Tunisia

Tunis - Tunis–Carthage International Airport

Asia

Bahrain

Manama – Bahrain International Airport

Iraq

Baghdad - Baghdad International Airport

Israel

Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion Airport

Kazakhstan

Aktobe – Aktobe Airport

Pakistan

Karachi - Jinnah International Airport

Lahore - Allama Iqbal International Airport

Qatar

Doha - Hamad International Airport

United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi International Airport

Dubai - Al Maktoum International Airport

China

Urumqi – Urumqi International Airport

Europe

Croatia

Zagreb – Zagreb Airport

France

Paris – Charles de Gaulle Airport

Germany

Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport

Leipzig – Leipzig/Halle Airport

Munich – Munich Airport

Netherlands

Amsterdam – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Turkey

Istanbul – Istanbul Airport (Hub)

United Kingdom

London – London Luton Airport

Birmingham – Birmingham Airport

East Midlands - East Midlands Airport

North America

United States

New York City - John F. Kennedy International Airport

Fleet

As of August 2025, MNG Airlines operates the following aircraft:

From Wikipedia’s article on MNG Airlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 1996Founded Founded in İstanbul1

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