AIRPORTS SERVE 11.6 MILLION PASSENGERS IN APRIL

Turkish airports hosted about 11.6 million passengers in April, up 88.1% from last year, according to the State Airports Authority General Directorate (DHMI). Some 5.4 million passengers took domestic flights last month, with 6.2 million going on international flights. The figure was 73% of pre-virus levels in April 2019. Airports served 139,445 planes, including overflights, in April. Of these, 61,230 were on domestic routes and 47,304 were on international ones. The cargo traffic last month rose to 299,829 tons, up 28.8% on an annual basis. In January-April, the number of passengers that went through Turkey’s airports, including transit passengers, jumped 72.9% year on year to 41.3 million. Plane traffic, including overflights, stood at 477,831 in the first four months of the year, while air cargo traffic was at over 1.1 million tons.