Template:Did you know nominations/Turkish Airlines fleet

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 08:14, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Turkish Airlines fleet

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A Turkish Airlines Airbus A340

... that when expanding the airline's fleet in 1989, the directors of Turkish Airlines didn't fulfill the request of Turkey's president Turgut Özal to buy the Boeing 747 and ordered the Airbus A340 (pictured) instead?

Source: Kozlu, 2007, p. 94–104: "Bu ve benzeri hatlar için [Turgut] Özal'ın gönlünde Boeing 747'nin yattığı biliniyordu. [...] Halbuki, yaptığım her inceleme Boeing 747 alımının vahim bir hata olacağı, THY'nin üzerine taşıyamayacağı bir yük bindireceği sonucuna gelip dayanıyordu. [...] Airbus A340, teknik özellikleri, uçuş performansı, teslim tarihleri ve maaliyet avantajı nedeiyle oybirliğiyle MD-11'e tercih edilmişti."
Translation: "It was known that Boeing 747 was in the heart of [Turgut] Özal for this and similar routes. [...] However, every review I made came to the conclusion that the Boeing 747 purchase would be a grave mistake and would put a burden on THY that it could not carry. [...] The Airbus A340 was unanimously preferred over the MD-11 due to its technical features, flight performance, delivery dates and cost advantage."

- Reviewed: To Be Loved (Adele song)
- Comment: Moved from draftspace. See #Start of the jet age for context of the hook. Imagine doing this today, while this guy is in charge...

Created by Styyx (talk). Self-nominated at 19:47, 14 July 2022 (UTC).

New enough in mainspace (moved July 14) and long enough. Hook fact checks out (AGF on offline Turkish-language source using translation provided) and is quite interesting. The image is suitable for Main Page use. No textual issues. Everything is either cited or introduces a heavily cited table. Light copyediting of hook. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:49, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

@Sammi Brie and Styyx: The current hook is above 200 characters. Maybe we can shorten it up a bit?

ALT0a ... that when expanding the airline's fleet in 1989, the directors of Turkish Airlines didn't fulfill the request of Turkey's president to buy the Boeing 747 and ordered the Airbus A340 (pictured) instead?

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:10, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

I think it's good. ~Styyx^Talk? 00:16, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

This has my stamp of approval too. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:18, 29 July 2022 (UTC)