Turkish Airlines carried 54.7 million passengers in 2014

Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200 (Sharklets)
Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200 (Sharklets)

Turkish Airlines has published their traffic statistics for the last year. During the period of January-December 2014 total passenger carried has increased by 13.3%, reaching to 54.7 million passengers from 48.3 million passengers for the same period of 2013. Increase in number of passengers carried in domestic and international lines is 13.2% and 13.3%, respectively.

International Business/Comfort Class passengers increased by 13.5% for the same period, while international-to-international transfer passengers increased by 20.0%.  L/F decreased by 0.1 point to 78.9%.

ASK with 16.3% increase reached to 135.3 billion during the period of January-December 2014 from 116.4 billion for the same period of 2013. Increase in ASK in domestic and international lines is 13.8% and 16.6%, respectively.

RPK with 16.1% increase reached to 106.8 billion during the period of January-December 2014 from 92.0 billion for the same period of 2013. Increase in RPK in domestic and international lines is 15.8% and 16.1%, respectively.

Number of landing (passenger aircraft), 370,158 for the period of January-December 2013 has increased to 413,376 in 2014. (+ 11.7%). Cargo/Mail carried during the period of January-December 2014 reached to 667,743 tons from 565,315 tons in 2013. (+ 18.1%)

By the end of December 2014, number of destinations went up to 261 from 243, compared to December of 2013. Number of domestic destinations has increased from 42 to 43 and international destinations from 201 to 218.

By the end of December 2014, number of aircraft went up to 261 from 233, compared to December of 2013. While number of wide body aircraft has increased from 42 to 55, narrow body from 182 to 197, cargo aircraft remained the same, total of 9.