Air Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu Havaçilik A.S.) was a charter airline based in Istanbul, Turkey. It began flying in 1996 and closed in 2003. The airline's network expanded from the Middle East to Europe. By 2002, the airline had run into financial stress, and some of their airplanes began to be sold to other airlines. By 2003, all planes were sold (for example to Fly Air), and the airline's management decided to close the airline.

 

Their fleet included Airbus A300, four Boeing 737's, two Boeing 757's and a McDonnell- Douglass MD-80.

 

ICAO callsign: Air Anatolia

 

Air Anatolia was commonly known as Anatolia, and was associated with Sultan Reizen, formerly GTI Airlines Inc. Its bread and butter were holiday seekers and Anatolia profited of the growing popularity of Turkey as a summer holiday destination. Other traffic concerned the so-called "visiting friends and relatives", Turkish people who moved to countries such as Germany and the Netherlands visiting their family and friends in Turkey.

 

Anatolia always operated rather used equipment, the fleet changed almost every season. A few times aircraft were impounded due to unpaid bills. During 2002 some of Anatolia's aircraft appeared with a new name: Fly Air. During April 2003 Air Anatolia was quietly dissolved and its aircraft appeared with MNG and Fly Air.

Flightnumber prefix: NTL

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