2002 Annual Report - Turkish Airlines

2002 • 17Traffic results for scheduled domesticand international flights with aregional breakdown are provided inthe table below:Available Revenue Passenger Load Factor (%)Seat-kms Passenger-kms02/01 02/01(change %) (change %) 2001 2002Scheduled Domestic Flights -11.2 -5.3 66.3 70.6Scheduled International Flights -2.6 6.9 62.3 68.3Europe -2.0 1.8 63.9 66.5North Africa 2.3 4.4 67.3 68.8Middle East 12.9 16.3 61.0 62.8Far East 8.9 24.8 62.9 72.1North America -29.8 -11.2 55.8 70.5South Africa 23.8 32.6 65.4 70.0Charter FlightsIn 2002, a total of 2,276 landings weremade by charter flights, 1,906 of whichwere international and 370 weredomestic. There was an increase of43.1% in charter flights in 2002compared to the previous year.International flights were to Europe(91.7%), the Middle East (4.2%), theFar East (2.4%), North Africa (1.2%)and North America (0.5%).Pilgrimage (Hajj and Umrah)FlightsA total of 108,634 pilgrim passengerswere carried on outbound flightsbetween January 22 - February 16 andinbound flights between February 25 -March 21, 2002.On Umrah flights, outbound betweenNovember 3-17 and inbound betweenDecember 5-17 a total of 14,387passengers were carried.CargoAfter the adversities that affected thecivil aviation sector in 2001 resulting inreduced cargo traffic, 2002 became ayear of revival for Turkish AirlinesCargo.Services were diversified in 2002 toincrease cargo traffic and optimize theexisting cargo capacity utilization.Total Cargo Distribution(in tons)Distribution of ScheduledInternational Cargo Flights (in tons)South Africa 3% North Africa 1%Middle East 9%Domestic Flights 22%North America 13%Europe 51%International Flights 78%Far East 23%Pristina flights were launched onApril 15, 2002.Hong Kong flights werelaunched on October 28, 2002.Business Class was introduced onIstanbul-Ankara-Istanbul flightsstarting from September 16,2002.