Traffic results for the period of January-August 2015 are as follows:
• During the period of January-August 2015 passenger carried increased by 11.7%, reaching to 40.7 million passengers from 36.4 million passengers for the same period of 2014. Increase in number of passengers carried in domestic and international lines is 15.7% and 9.0%, respectively.
• International Business/Comfort Class passengers increased by 6.0% for the same period, while international-to-international transfer passengers increased by 16.0%.
• L/F decreased by 0.8 point to 78.8%.
• ASK with 12.2% increase reached to 99.3 billion during the period of January-August 2015 from 88.6 billion for the same period of 2014. Increase in ASK in domestic and international lines is 11.9% and 12.2%, respectively.
• RPK with 11.1% increase reached to 78.3 billion during the period of January-August 2015 from 70.5 billion for the same period of 2014. Increase in RPK in domestic and international lines is 14.7% and 10.5%, respectively.
• Number of landings (passenger aircraft) of 275,340 for the period of January-August 2014 increased by 8.7% to 299,305 in 2015.
• Cargo/Mail carried during the period of January-August 2015 increased by 10.5% to 472,317 tons from 427,317 tons in 2014.
• By the end of August 2015, number of destinations went up to 277 from 260 of August 2014. Number of domestic destinations increased from 43 to 48 and international destinations increased from 217 to 229.
• By the end of August 2015, number of aircraft went up to 294 from 263 of August 2014. Number of wide body aircraft increased from 54 to 69, narrow body aircraft from 200 to 215 and cargo aircraft from 9 to 10.