Turkish airports serve over 230m passengers in 2024

urkish airports served over 230m passengers last year, marking an increase of 7.5% compared to a year earlier, according to a top official on Sunday. "While we served 95.3m passengers on domestic lines and 134.7m on international lines in one year, a total of 230.2m passengers, including direct transit passengers, used our airports. There was a 7.5% increase in total passenger traffic compared to the previous year," Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said in a written statement. Evaluating the data from the General Directorate of State Airports Authority (DHMI), the minister touched upon figures in domestic and international routes and cargo carried in the past year. Referring to data from December alone, Uraloğlu said the number of passengers reached 7.08m on domestic lines and 8.47m on international lines. "A total of 15.56m were served, including direct transit passengers. Our passenger numbers increased by 8.2% compared to the same month in 2023," he added. “The amount of cargo carried at our airports reached 380,912 tons in December, including 65,111 tons on domestic lines and 315,802 tons on international lines,” he further said. Furthermore, the minister said that the number of landings and takeoffs stood at 902,078 on domestic flights, while international flights accounted for 866,779 throughout the year. Including overflights, total aircraft traffic reached 2.29m, a 5.5% increase from 2023.<br/>