Turkish Airlines gets 79.5pc load factor

The Turkish Airlines chairman of the board and the executive committee, M. lker Aycı PHOTO | TURKISH AIRLINES

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Turkish Airlines has continued to report strong performance after recording 79.5 per cent Load Factor last month. Domestic load factor was 87.1 per cent, and international load factor was 78.3 per cent

Dar es Salaam. Turkish Airlines has continued to record positive results after attaining 79.5 per cent load factor last month.

The performance results show that the total number of passengers carried in January 2019 was 5.7 million as domestic load factor was 87.1 per cent, and international load factor was 78.3 per cent.

Load factor may refer to the ratio of the lift of an aircraft to its weight.

International-to-international transfer passengers (transit passengers) went up by 5.2 per cent compared to the same period of last year.

The results have shown that cargo/mail volume continued the double digit growth trend, and increased by 14.9 per cent compared with the same period of 2018.

Main contributors to this growth in cargo/mail volume were Europe with 21 per cent, Far East with

“On top of the strong base effect of the last year’ same period, growth in revenue per kilometer has come into prominence as an important indicator of the positive demand environment for Turkish Airlines in 2019,” says the statement.

Commenting on the results, the airlines’ chairman of the board and the executive committee, M. İlker Aycı, said: “In 2018, we have achieved record traffic results for almost the whole year. Now, when we look at the first monthly results of 2019, we are seeing the continuity of this momentum is an important sign of our stable performance that we’ll display in the coming months of the year.”