Archive · 25 Sep 2025
Turkish Airlines Wins Three Finance Awards from Airline Economics
Turkish Airlines, the national airline of Turkey, has been recognized with three awards from Airline Economics.
These awards are for their smart and unique ways of paying for new airplanes.
One award was for using a special kind of Islamic finance to buy an Airbus A350.
Another was for a deal where they got help from others to finance two more Airbus A350s.
The third award was for finding a way to pay for two new Airbus A321neo planes that also helps the environment.
The airline has been praised for coming up with new ideas in financing and they’ve won 30 awards in the last ten years for these creative methods.
Turkish Airlines received three awards from Airline Economics.
Awards included "European Overall Deal of the Year" for an Islamic finance lease.
The airline won "European Supported Finance Deal of the Year" for financing two Airbus A350 aircraft.
The "Sustainability Aviation Overall Deal of the Year" was awarded for sustainability-linked JOLCO financing.
Turkish Airlines has won 30 international aircraft finance awards in the last ten years.
- Who
- Turkish Airlines
- What
- Received three awards from Airline Economics for innovative financing deals.
- When
- In 2024 and prior years.
- Where
- Europe and internationally.
- Why
- Recognition of financial strength and strategic vision, along with innovative financing structures.
- Award Categories
- European Overall Deal, European Supported Finance, Sustainability Aviation Overall Deal
- Winning Bank
- Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB)
- Supported Finance Structure
- Balthazar-guaranteed JOLCO
- Sustainability-linked Financing
- Yes, for Airbus A321neo aircraft
- Total Awards in 10 years
- 30 international aircraft finance awards
- Total value of awards
- Approximately 16 billion USD