
Number of passengers up 4.7% year-on-year in 7-month period with 82.1% load factor
Türkiye's flag carrier Turkish Airlines reported Thursday that it carried 51.2 million passengers in the first seven months of the year with an 82.1% load factor.
The total number of passengers rose 4.7% year-on-year this January to July, the airline said in a Thursday statement posted on Türkiye’s Public Disclosure Platform (KAP)
The number of international-to-international passengers climbed 9% to 19.6 million in the January-July period.
The load factor was up 0.6% on an annual basis in the same period.
The international passenger load factor was 81.7% and domestic passenger load factor was 85.6%.
The company's available seat kilometers rose 6.1% to 153.9 billion in the seven-month period, from 145.1 billion in the same period of 2024.
Cargo and mail volume rose 4.4% to 1.21 million tons in the same period in 2025, compared to 1.16 million tons in January-July 2024.
The company's fleet reached 491 aircraft at the end of July.
In July alone, Turkish Airlines' total passenger numbers climbed 8.4% year-on-year to 9 million.
International-to-international transfer passengers in July jumped 12.8% compared to the same month of the previous year, reaching 3.3 million, while the passenger load factor was up by 0.2 percentage points to 85.4%.
The international load factor in July was 84.8%, and the domestic load factor 90.6%.
The company's available seat kilometers leaped 8.7% to 25 billion in July 2025.
Cargo and mail volume transported reached 191,100 tons in July 2025, up 11.2% from the same month in 2024.