Turkish Airlines’ load factor reaches 83.4% in September

KUWAIT: Turkish Airlines has recently announced the passenger and cargo traffic results for September and left behind a month of high load factor with 83.4 percent performance. On top of the strong base effect of September 2017, growth in the number of passengers, revenue per kilometer and load factor, is an important indicator of the continued growing interest in Turkey and Turkish Airlines.

According to September 2018 Traffic Results; The passenger growth trend continued in September, thus total number of passengers carried went up by 1 percent reaching about 7 million passengers, and Load Factor went up to percent83.4.

In September 2018, Total Load Factor improved by 2 points, while international Load Factor increased by 2 points to 83 percent, domestic Load Factor increased by 2 points to 87 percent approximately.

International-to-international transfer passengers (transit passengers) went up by 3 percent approximately.

In September, cargo/mail volume continued the double digit growth trend and increased by 22 percent, compared to the same period of 2017. Main contributors to the growth in cargo/mail volume, are Domestic Lines with 48 percent, N. America with 32 percent increase, Africa with 23 percent increase and Far East with 20 percent increase.

In September, Africa showed load factor growth of 7 points, while Europe, Domestic Lines and Far East showed load factor growth of about 2 points.

According to the January-September 2018 Traffic Results;

During January-September, increase in demand and total number of passengers was 10 percent and 12 percent, respectively, over the same period of last year. Total number of passengers reached to 58 million.

During January-September, total Load Factor improved by 3 points up to 82 percent. While international Load Factor increased by approximately 3 points exceeding 81 percent, domestic Load Factor went up by 2 points exceeding 85 percent.

Excluding international-to-international transfer passengers (transit passengers), number of international passengers went up significantly by 13 percent.

Cargo/mail carried during the nine months increased by 25 percent and reached to 1 million tons.