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 kilometers compared to that of 2022. In December, number of passengers recorded as 6.1 million and total load factor realized as 79.8%.

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. International load factor was 80% while domestic load factor was 78.5%.
• 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 kilometers (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. International load factor was 82.4% while domestic load factor was 84.3%.
• Available seat kilometers (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.