Turkish Airlines, who has recently announced the results of passenger and cargo traffic in May, achieved the highest first five-month load factor (LF) in its history with 80.7%. The national flag carrier maintains its position on the global aviation agenda with the high LF performances it has reached especially in recent periods. <\/p>\n
According to the May 2018 Traffic Results; <\/p>\n
Upon the double-digit passenger increases in the first four months of 2018, total number of passengers carried went up by 4% reaching 6.1 million passengers, and Load Factor stood at %78.6 in May. <\/p>\n
In May 2018, Total Load Factor improved by 1 point, with an increase of 3,6% in capacity (Available Seat Kilometer), while international LF increased by 1,7 points to 78% and domestic Load Factor stood at 83%. <\/p>\n
In May, cargo\/mail volume continued the double digit growth trend and increased by 22%, compared to May 2017. Main contributors to the growth in cargo\/mail volume, are domestic lines with 35% increase, Middle East with 31% increase, N. America with 29% increase, Europe with 24% increase and Africa with 22% increase.<\/p>\n
In May, N. America, Africa and Far East showed load factor growth of 5 points, 3 points and 1 point, respectively.<\/p>\n
According to the January-May 2018 Traffic Results;<\/p>\n
During January-May, increase in demand and total number of passengers was 17% and 19%, respectively, over the same period of last year. Total number of passengers reached to 29.3 million. <\/p>\n
During January-May, total Load Factor improved by approximately 5 points up to 80,7%, recording the highest load factor in Turkish Airlines history for the first five months. While international Load Factor increased by 5 points up to 80%, domestic load factor went up by 2 points to 85%. <\/p>\n
Cargo\/mail carried during the first five months increased by 30% and reached 545 thousand tons, thanks to strong pick up in cargo\/mail volume in May of 2018.<\/p>\n
Turkish Airlines, Inc.<\/p>\n
Media Relations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Turkish Airlines, who has recently announced the results of passenger and cargo traffic in May, achieved the highest first five-month load factor (LF) in its history with 80.7%. The national flag carrier maintains its position on the global aviation agenda with the high LF performances it has reached especially in recent periods. According to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"1","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_pr_autopilot_social_copy":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":0,"_extra_hide_author_box":"1","_extra_featured_post":"","_partner_post_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n