Turkish Airlines has announced that it has recorded the highest load factor, both passenger and cargo in its history.
The airline said the results of passenger and cargo traffic in July, 2018 in which it recoded 85.3 per cent load factor is 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 kilometer 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 4 per cent reaching 7.8 million passengers, and Load Factor went up to 85 per cent.
Also, the Total Load Factor improved by 1.5 points, with an increase of 2 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 7 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, are Middle East with 33 per cent increase, Europe with 26 per cent increase, Africa with 26 per cent increase, N. America with 32 per cent increase and Far East with 16 per cent increase. Africa, N. America and Far East showed load factor growth of 5.5 points, 3.5 points and 4 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. Total number of passengers reached to 43 million. Total Load Factor also improved by 4 points to 81 per cent. While international load factor increased by approximately 4 points to 81 per cent, domestic load factor went up by 2 points to 85 per cent, thus recording the highest load factor in Turkish Airlines history for the period of January-July.
Excluding international-to-international transfer passengers (transit passengers), number of international passengers went up significantly by 18 per cent .Cargo/mail carried during the first seven months of 2018 increased by 26 per ent and reached 779 thousand tons.
