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Turkish Airlines extends international flight cancellation due to pandemic

by DAILY SABAH

ISTANBUL Apr 14, 2020 - 1:43 pm GMT+3
A Turkish Airlines aircraft lands at Istanbul Airport, April 6, 2019.
A Turkish Airlines aircraft lands at Istanbul Airport, April 6, 2019.
by DAILY SABAH Apr 14, 2020 1:43 pm

National flag carrier Turkish Airlines (THY) has extended the cancellation of its international flights due to the coronavirus outbreak, the company said Tuesday.

The company will not fly on international routes until May 20, 2020 "in accordance with the decisions taken by the authorities of Turkey and to protect the public health from novel coronavirus pandemic."

Earlier this month, the carrier extended the cancellation of its flights to May 1 from April 17.

As of April 3, Turkish Airlines also halted domestic flights until April 20.

Budget carrier Pegasus Airlines has also extended the cancellation of its flights to May 15 from April 30 due to the coronavirus outbreak, the carrier said in a statement on Monday.

The coronavirus pandemic has brought the entire travel industry to a halt after since it appeared in Wuhan, China last December. The disease has spread to at least 185 countries and regions.

Data compiled by the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University Tuesday showed worldwide infections have surpassed 1.92 million, with the death toll nearly 120,000, while more than 458,500 have recovered.

In a statement on Monday, Turkish Airlines said the number of passengers it carried in the January-March period declined by 20% to 13.4 million, down from 16.7 million in the same period of 2019.

Passengers carried on domestic flights dropped by 24.2%, while the number of passengers on international flights declined by 16.7%, the statement read. The carrier’s seat occupancy rate – passenger load factor – decreased by 4.5 points to 75.5%.

International-to-international transit passengers were down by 15.5% year-on-year, while international non-transit passengers declined by 18.3% compared with January-March 2019.

The number of passengers it carried in March decreased by 53% to 2.8 million, down from 5.9 million in the same period last year, according to the statement. Passengers on domestic flights dropped by 44.9% to while the number of passengers carried on international flights declined by 59.1%, the statement read.

Turkish Airlines said its cargo/mail carried during the first quarter increased by 3.6% year-on-year to 378,743 tons.

With the world’s sixth-largest cargo capacity, Turkish Cargo, a division of THY, recently started to operate cargo flights with Turkish Airlines’ passenger aircraft, in addition to its flights with 25 high-capacity freighters, to boost its capacity to prevent any supply chain disruption and to carry critically important medical freight amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Turkish Cargo has planned 155 flights per week for cargo freighters and 60 flights per week for passenger aircraft that are being used for cargo operations, departing from Istanbul in April.

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