Turkish State Airports Authority (DHMI) announced aircraft, passenger and freight statistics for 2019. DHMI said that a total of 209,092,548 passengers are handled by airports in Turkey in 2019.
Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Cahit Turhan said that during December 2019, the total number of aircraft landing and taking off at airports was 62 thousand 442 in domestic and 43 thousand 890 in international flights. The total aircraft traffic reported as 144 thousand 724.
In December 2019, total domestic passenger traffic at airports recorded at 7 million 298 thousand 489 and international passenger traffic recorded at 6 million 164 thousand 431. Turhan said with the addition of both direct and transit passenger numbers, total passenger traffic accounted for 13,474,156.
Freight volume in December recorded as 56,132 tons in domestic and 221,036 tons in international and 277,168 tons in total.
During January-December 2019, total aircraft movement in Turkish airports accounted for 839,850 in domestic and 713,651 in international flights. The total aircrafts served accounted for 2,030,291 aircraft.
In 2019, domestic passenger number is recorded as 100,140,814 while international passenger number is recorded as 108,692,517. Turhan said with the addition of both direct and transit passenger numbers, total passenger traffic accounted for 209,092,548 in 2019.
The number of take-offs and landings at Istanbul Airport in December 2019 announced as 8,215 for domestic, and 26,421 for international and a grand total of 34,636. The total number of passenger traffic announced as 1,203,327 for domestic, 4,076,924 for international and a grand total of 5,280,251 passengers.
In the first three months of 2019, 2,630 aircraft and 327,169 passengers handled at Istanbul Airport. Following the great migration to the new Istanbul Airport in April 2019, the total number of take-offs and landings for April – December 2019 period is accounted for as 327,799 and 52,259,826 passengers.
The freight traffic at Istanbul Ataturk Airport was announced as 138,239.
Until the first week of April 2019, Ataturk Airport handled 16,072,534 passengers. “So that in two airports during the same period, 468,038 aircraft are served and 68,650,542 passengers used Istanbul airports,” added Turhan.
