2002 Annual Report - Turkish Airlines

16 • 2002 TURKISH AIRLINES annual reportFlight Network – ScheduleStructurePristina flights were launched on April15, 2002.During the 2002 Winter Schedule,Kuala Lumpur service was terminated;Hong Kong flights were launched onOctober 28, 2002.Sivas and Kahramanmarafl serviceswere terminated on January 21, 2002and March 8, 2002 respectively.Ankara-Samsun-Ankara services wereterminated on March 25, 2002.Osaka flights, suspended on October28, 2001, were reintroduced onFebruary 8, 2002 with a connection inSeoul.Business Class was introduced onIstanbul-Ankara-Istanbul flights startingfrom September 16, 2002.Due to runway and apronmaintenance at Ercan Airport, Cyprusflights were redirected to GeçitkaleAirport as of September 10, 2002.Due to the maintenance at AdanaAirport, the airport was closed to airtraffic between November 4, 2002and January 13, 2003. All Istanbul-Adana-Istanbul, Ankara-Adana-Ankaraand Adana-Jeddah-Adana flightsbetween those dates were cancelled.Scheduled FlightsIn 2002, while scheduled domesticflight capacity was reduced by 11.2%and traffic by 5.3% compared to theprevious year, the passenger loadfactor increased to 70.6%, up 4.4points compared to 2001. While atotal of 4.9 million passengers werecarried, a total of 26 thousand tons ofcargo was also transported.Scheduled international flight capacitydropped by 2.6% while trafficincreased by 6.9%, resulting in apassenger load factor of 68.3% by asix point increase. A total of fivemillion passengers were carried whiletotal cargo transport reached 84thousand tons.