Freebird Airlines (Turkish Hürkuş Havayolu Taşımacılık ve Ticaret A.Ş.) is a Turkish charter airline with headquarters based in Istanbul. Its main operational base is Antalya Airport.
Established in 2000 on a strong infrastructure amongst Turkish private air carriers and started operations in 2001, Freebird Airlines operates in Europe and Middle East with the fleet of 10 Airbus A320s. Freebird has three core activities: passenger/cargo transport, engineering & maintenance and flight crew training. These activities are carried out under the regulation of the Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
Freebird is a company of Gözen Holding, rendering services in the field of representation, fuel, supervision, brokerage, Security and training.
By striving to attain excellence as an airline, Freebird Airlines intends to generate value for its customers, employees and shareholders.
A subsidiary company, Freebird Airlines Europe, was established in Malta in 2018. Operations started with a single Airbus A320 on 20 February 2019.