Turkish Airlines has broken its pre-pandemic record on monthly passenger count by carrying 7.8 million passengers each during July and August, while increasing its seat capacity by 14 percent on international flights.

With this, the national carrier has become the “world’s biggest network carrier” when it comes to available seat capacity on international flights, an airline statement said.

Prof Dr Ahmet Bolat, Chairman of Turkish Airlines, said: “With the effects of the worldwide pandemic lessening, global competition in the aviation sector continues at a higher level from where it left off. As an exemplary airline with its performance during the crisis, we are happy to fly to success after the crisis has passed as well. Our goal was to surpass our 2019 performance which we managed to do so with the efforts of our 65,000 strong work force.”

“While the aviation sector shrunk by 19 percent during August compared to 2019 on the available seat kilometres, we grew by 14 percent on the same metric. Thus, as of August, we became the world’s biggest network carrier when it comes to available seat capacity on international flights. Every member of our family contributed to this success,” he added.

Source: Civil Aviation Authority-Qatar