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Turkish Airlines carried 6.1 million passengers with an increase of 10.1% in December 2023

Turkish Airlines announced passenger and cargo traffic results for December with 19.4% higher passenger capacity in terms of available seat kilometres compared to that of 2022.

Turkish Airlines Airbus
Turkish Airlines Airbus

In December, a number of passengers was recorded as 6.1 million and the total load factor was realized as 79.8% by Turkish Airlines.

According to December 2023 Traffic Results:

  • The number of carried passengers increased by 10.1% compared to the same period of 2022 and reached 6.1 million. The international load factor was 80% while the domestic load factor was 78.5%.
  • The number of international to international passengers carried increased by 19% from 2.2 million in 2022 to 2.6 million in this period.
  • Available seat kilometres (ASK), increased by 19.4% to 19.8 billion during the period of December 2023 from 16.6 billion for the same period of 2022.
  • Cargo/Mail carried during the period of December 2023 increased by 15.8% to 159.7 thousand tons from 137.9 thousand tons in the same period of 2022.

According to the January-December 2023 Traffic Results:

  • The total number of passengers increased by 16.1% to 83.4 million compared to the same period of 2022.
  • The number of international to international passengers carried increased by 27.1% to 29.8 million from 23.4 million in the same period of 2022.
  • Total load factor increased by 1.9 points to 82.6% compared to the same period of 2022. The international load factor was 82.4% while the domestic load factor was 84.3%.
  • Available seat kilometres (ASK) increased by 16.4% to 234.8 billion from 201.8 billion for the same period of 2022.
  • Cargo/Mail carried during this period decreased by 1.2% to 1.66 million tons from 1.68 million tons in the same period of 2022.
  • By the end of December 2023, the number of aircraft in the fleet was 440.

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