Turkish Airlines has announced that it carried 7.9 million passengers with an increase of 9.2% in September 2023. Passenger and cargo traffic results for the month saw an increase in passenger capacity by 8.9% compared to that of 2022, and total load factor of 84.9% while carrying 7.9 million passengers.

September 2023 traffic results

The number of passengers increased by 9.2% compared to the same period of 2022 and reached 7.9 million. International load factor was 84.6% while domestic load factor was 87.3%.

Number of international passengers increased by 14.6% from 2.3 million in 2022 to 2.7 million in this period.

Available seat kilometres (ASK), increased by 8.9% to 21.1 billion during the period of September 2023 from 19.3 billion for the same period of 2022.

Cargo/mail carried during the period of September 2023 increased by 3.4% to 150.3 thousand tonnes from 145.4 thousand tonnes in the same period of 2022.

January-September 2023 traffic results

The total number of passengers increased by 18.6% to 63.9 million compared to the same period of 2022.

The number of international passengers carried increased by 31.2% to 22.4 million from 17.1 million in the same period of 2022.

Total load factor increased by 3.4 points to 83.1% compared to the same period of 2022. International load factor was 82.9% while domestic load factor was 84.9%.

Available seat kilometres (ASK) increased by 16.6% to 176 billion from 150.9 billion for the same period of 2022.

Cargo/mail carried during this period decreased by 5.7% to 1,187 thousand tonnes from 1,259 thousand tonnes in the same period of 2022.

By the end of September 2023, the number of aircraft in the fleet was 429. - TradeArabia News Service