Traffic results for the period of August 2019 are as follows:

• During the period of August 2019, passengers carried decreased by 1.8%, to 7.4 million passengers from 7.5 million passengers for the same period of 2018. The number of passengers carried in domestic lines decreased by 10.7%, and the number of passengers carried in international lines increased by 4.6%.

• Total L/F decreased by 0.8 points to 84.8%, while domestic L/F increased by 0.7 points and reached 88.4%.

• RPK increased by 3.0% to 15.2 billion during the period of August 2019 from 14.7 billion for the same period of 2018. Decrease in RPK in domestic lines is 9.2% and RPK in international lines increased by 4.8%.

• International-to-international transfer passengers increased by 9.4%.

• International non-transit passengers decreased by 0.4% compared to the same period of August 2018.

• Cargo/Mail carried during the period of August 2019 increased by 11.5% to 130,151 tons from 116,682 tons in 2018.

• During the period of August 2019, the regional traffic results are as follows:

o Increase in RPK in Far East, Africa and Europe are 11.2%, 10.5% and 6.0%.

o Increase in L/F in domestic market, North America and Far East by 0.6 pt., 0.4 pt. and 0.3 pt.

o Increase in passengers carried in Far East, Africa, Europe and Middle East are 10.5%, 7.5%, 7.5% and 3.7% respectively.

Traffic results for the period of January-August 2019 are as follows:

• During the period of January-August 2019, passengers carried decreased by 2.1%, to 49.7 million passengers from 50.8 million passengers for the same period of 2018. The number of passengers carried in domestic lines decreased by 7.2% and the number of international lines increased by 1.9%.

• International-to-international transfer passengers increased by 3.5%, compared to the same period of 2018.

• International Non-transit passengers remained almost unchanged compared to the period of January–August 2018.

• L/F decreased by 0.6 points to 81.2%. 

• ASK increased by 1.4% to 124.0 billion during the period of January-August 2019 from 122.3 billion for the same period of 2018. ASK in domestic lines decreased by 7.0%, while ASK in international lines increased by 2.7%.

• RPK increased by 0.6% to 100.7 billion during the period of January-August 2019 from 100.0 billion for the same period of 2018. Decrease in RPK in domestic lines is 5.8% while increase in RPK in international lines is 1.7%.

• Number of landings (passenger aircraft) of 327,568 for the period of January-August 2018 decreased by 1.8% to 333,689 in 2019.

• Cargo/Mail carried during the period of January-August 2019 increased by 9.6% to 985,228 tons from 898,541 tons in 2018.

• By the end of August 2019, number of aircraft went up to 343 from 326 of August 2018.