BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 28. As many as 29.4 million passengers were carried by the Istanbul Airport of Türkiye in October 2022, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Türkiye said, Trend reports via TurkicWorld.
According to the ministry, this figure was 82 percent more than in the same period of 2021.
In the reporting month, the airport's domestic air passenger traffic equaled 8.68 million people (a growth of 56 percent), whereas international passenger traffic reached 20.7 million people (two times increase).
Meantime, Istanbul Airport handled 1.2 million tons of cargo, which was 70 percent more than in October 2021.
During this period, the airport's domestic air cargo traffic amounted to 127,813 tons (a year-on-year increase of 29 percent), while international cargo traffic was 1.1 million tons (a rise of 74 percent).
Furthermore, 223,715 flights were implemented in October 2022, increasing by 57 percent year over year. Meanwhile, the number of domestic flights amounted to 65,115 (a growth of 41 percent), whereas international flights – 158,600 (a rise of 64 percent).
In October 2022, passenger traffic at all Turkish airports totaled 137.699 million people, whilst cargo turnover stood at 3.005 million tons.
At the end of 2021, passenger movement through all Turkish airports made up 128.387 million people, and cargo turnover – was 3.358 million tons.
