Total air traffic in Turkiye up 28.4% year-on-year in 2022, says transport minister
The number of passengers served by Turkiye’s airports in 2022 soared 42.1% from the previous year to 182.3 million, the transport and infrastructure minister said on Wednesday.
Adil Karaismailoglu said that in 2022,total air traffic in Turkiye jumped 28.4% to 1.88 million aircraft on a yearly basis, he noted.
Total aircraft traffic climbed 18.6% year-on-year in December 2022, reaching 144,578, including overflights, while the total number of air passengers last month, including transit passengers, was 12.88 million, he underlined.
Aircraft traffic in Turkiye’s Istanbul Airport was 37,436 in December, and the number of passengers was 5.4 million, he added.