Government airlines

The prime-ministerial inventory reveals that Turkey has eleven planes and three helicopters for the sole use of the president, speaker of parliament, prime-minister, deputy prime-ministers and ministers. From the prime-ministerial activities report, it emerges that, in 2016, 2,062 hours were flown in the eleven planes and 485 hours in the three helicopters. This shows that the top echelons of the state spent nearly one-third of 2016 in the air.

MAINTENANCE BILL: TRY 26 MILLION

Maintenance and hospitality services for flight operations of the planes belonging to the prime-ministry are carried out by Turkish Airlines staff. The annual cost to the state of maintaining and repairing the fleet, which under a cabinet decree issued in 2016 uses publicly owned airports free of charge or at reduced rates, is TRY 25,900,000.