Traffic results for the period of May 2018 are as follows:
• During the period of May 2018 passengers carried increased by 3.6%, to 6.1 million passengers from 5.9 million passengers for the same period of 2017. Increase in number of passengers carried in domestic and international lines are 1.9% and 4.9%, respectively.
• Total L/F increased by 1 point to 78.6%, while international L/F increased by 1.7 point.
• RPK increased by 5% to 12.2 billion during the period of May 2018 from 11.6 billion for the same period of 2017. Increase in RPK in domestic and international lines are 1.3% and 5.6%, respectively.
• International-to-international transfer passengers increased by 2.5%.
• Cargo/Mail carried during the period of May 2018 increased by 21.6% to 118,417 tons from 97,369 tons in 2017.
• During the period of May 2018, the regional traffic results are as follows:
o Increase in RPK in Africa, N. America and Far East are 9.2%, 8.8% and 4.3%.
o Increase in L/F in N. America, Africa and Far East are 5.4 pt., 2.8 pt. and 1.4 pt.
o Increase in passengers carried in N. America, Africa, Far East and Europe are 8.7%, 8.3%, 4.4% and 3.1% respectively.
Traffic results for the period of January- May 2018 are as follows:
• During the period of January- May 2018 passengers carried increased by 19.4%, to 29.3 million passengers from 24.6 million passengers for the same period of 2017. Increase in number of passengers carried in domestic and international lines are 21.6% and 17.7%, respectively.
• International-to-international transfer passengers increased by 13.2%, compared to the same period of 2017.
• L/F increased by 4.7 point to 80.7%.
• ASK increased by 10.3% to 72.3 billion during the period of January- May 2018 from 65.6 billion for the same period of 2017. ASK in domestic lines increased by 17.5%, while ASK in international lines increased by 9.2%.
• RPK increased by 17.1% to 58.3 billion during the period of January- May 2018 from 49.8 billion for the same period of 2017. Increase in RPK in domestic and international lines are 20.7% and 16.6%, respectively.
• Number of landings (passenger aircraft) of 176,162 for the period of January- May 2017 increased by 11.1% to 195,755 in 2018.
• Cargo/Mail carried during the period of January- May 2018 increased by 29.8% to 545,186 tons from 420,056 tons in 2017.
• By the end of May 2018, number of aircraft went down to 327 from 338 of May 2017. Number of wide body aircraft decreased to 92 from 94, number of narrow body aircraft decreased from 231 to 217 and cargo aircraft went up to 18 from 13.