Turkish Airlines Records Highest Load Factor in July

Turkish
Airlines has announced that it recorded the highest load factor, both passenger
and cargo in its history in July.

 The
airline said the results of passenger and cargo traffic in July 2018, in which
it recoded 85.3 per cent load factor, was the highest so far in its operations.

 The
airline said despite the high base of July 2017, growth in the number of
passengers, revenue per kilometre and load factor, has been an important
indicator of the continued increase in global interest to Turkey and Turkish
Airlines.

The
company said the passenger growth trend continued thus total number of
passengers carried went up by four per cent, reaching 7.8 million passengers.

Also,
the total load factor improved by 1.5 points, with an increase of two per cent
in capacity (available seat kilometer), while international load factor
increased by 1.7 points to 84,9 per cent, domestic load factor stood at 88 per
cent.

 Excluding
international-to-international transfer passengers (transit passengers), number
of international passengers went up by seven per cent.

Additionally,
cargo/mail volume continued the double digit growth trend and increased by 20
per cent, compared to the same period of 2017.

 Main
contributors to the growth in cargo/mail volume, were Middle East with 33 per
cent increase, Europe with 26 per cent increase, Africa with 26 per cent
increase, North America with 32 per cent increase and far east with 16 per cent
increase.

Africa,
North America and far east showed load factor growth of 5.5 points, 3.5 points
and four points, respectively.

The
airline said there was an increase in demand and total number of passengers by
13 per cent and 15 per cent, respectively, over the same period of last year.