In 2022, Turkish Airlines handled 71.8 million passengers, with an increase of roughly 6 percent in the number of foreign travellers.
Turkish Airlines said in a filing with Borsa Istanbul that it carried 46.3 million foreign passengers last year, with a load ratio of 80.2 percent on those flights.
The airline carried 25.4 million passengers on domestic routes, down from 30.44 million in 2019.
The flag carrier raised the number of passengers it could carry from 69,023 four years ago to over 80,000 last year, and it expanded the number of places it travelled to from 318 to 337.
There were 451,677 landings of passenger flights, down from 486,941 landings in 2019.
Additionally, 1.68 million tonnes of cargo and mail were transported by Turkish Airlines, an 8.7% increase from the previous year.
The firm transported 5.54 million passengers in December 2022, up 1.1 percent from the same month in 2019; the overall load factor climbed from 80.7 to 81.6 percent.
While the number of domestic passengers decreased by 7.8% to 1.93 million, the number of international passengers grew from 3.39 million in December 2019 to 3.6 million last month.
Turkish Airlines was listed among the top ten aircraft operators by Eurocontrol for 2022.
Turkish Airlines maintained its strength throughout the whole year, including a summer spent operating above 2019 levels, but fell one spot to third with 1,245 daily flights, down 7% from 2019 for the entire year, according to Eurocontrol.
EasyJet came in second on the list with an average of 1,335 daily flights, while Ryanair took the top spot with 2,356 daily flights.
Positions four through six were taken by Lufthansa, Air France, and KLM.
