Turkish Airlines flies 60.7M passengers in 8 months of 2025
A Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 wide-body aircraft is seen landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands, Jan. 5, 2022. (Reuters Photo)


Türkiye's flag carrier Turkish Airlines (THY) said Monday that it carried 60.7 million passengers in the first eight months of the year with an 82.7% load factor.

The total number of passengers rose 5.8% year-over-year during the period, the airline said in a statement posted on the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP).

The number of international-to-international passengers climbed 10.3% to 23.1 million in the January-August period.

The load factor was up 0.6 percentage points compared to the same period of 2024.

The international passenger load factor was 82.3% and the domestic passenger load factor was 86.7%.

The company's available seat kilometers rose 6.4% to 179.2 billion in the eight months from 168.5 billion in the same period of 2024.

Cargo and mail volume rose 5.4% to 1.4 million tons in the same period of 2025 compared to 1.3 million tons in January-August 2024.

The company's fleet reached 501 aircraft at the end of August.

In August alone, Turkish Airlines' total passenger numbers climbed 11.9% year-over-year to 9.4 million.

International-to-international transfer passengers in August jumped 17.3% compared to the same month last year, reaching 3.49 million, while the passenger load factor was up by 0.9 percentage points to 86.7%.

The international load factor in August was 86% and the domestic load factor 92.6%.

The company's available seat kilometers leaped 8.2% to 25.3 billion in August 2025.

Cargo and mail volume transported exceeded 191,100 tons in August, up 10.5% from the same month in 2024.