Turkiye's airports host 9.4M passengers in February

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - Turkish airports welcomed 9.4 million passengers in February, the country’s air travel authority said Tuesday.

The February figure was 74% higher than February 2021, when the number of air passengers fell significantly due to COVID-19, and neared February 2019 figures, before the pandemic went substantially global.

Some 5.22 million passengers took domestic flights, while 4.16 million took international flights last month.

Turkish airports served 105,990 aircraft this February, including overflights, including 51,021 on domestic routes and 32,401 on international routes.

The authority also said air cargo traffic last month reached 235,581 tons.

Istanbul Airport, the mega-airport in Turkiye’s largest metropolis, welcomed 3.56 million passengers on both international and domestic routes, serving over 26,204 airplanes in February.

In January-February, the number of air passengers through Turkish airports hit 18.7 million.

Plane traffic in the first two months of this year was 218,091.​​​​​​