2003 Annual Report - Turkish Airlines

Flight Network-Schedule StructureScheduled FlightsAs of September 18, 2003 Turkish Airlines’ flights havecommenced to New Delhi.On the Summer Schedule 2003, the number of flights toBeijing/Shanghai has increased from three to five perweek.While scheduled domestic flight capacity remained thesame as in the previous year, traffic increased by 2.1%.Likewise, the passenger load factor increased to 72.1%,an increase of 1.4 points. The number of passengerscarried was 5.0 million, total cargo and mail amountedto 28,000 tons.Turkish Airlines’ final flight to Johannesburg/Cape Townwas on March 29, 2003, according to the decision toterminate the route by March 30, 2003.Flights to Tbilisi were reactivated on September 15,2003, which was terminated on April 15, 2003 due tolack of permission from the Georgian authorities.Flights to Hong Kong were suspended between April 16and June 30, 2003, while flights to Beijing andShanghai were similarly stopped between May 14 andJuly 15 due to the SARS epidemic.In 2003, the war in Iraq and the SARS epidemic had anegative effect on international flights.While scheduled international flight capacity decreasedby 1.3%, traffic decreased by 5.7%; resulting in adecrease of 3 points in the passenger load factor, whichtotaled 65.3% at the end of the year. On theseinternational flights, 4.9 million passengers were carriedalong with 88,000 tons of cargo and mail.Available Seat-kms Revenue Passenger-kms Passenger LoadFactor (%)03/02 03/02(change %) (change %) 2002 2003Scheduled Domestic 0.1 2.1 70.6 72.1Scheduled International (1.3) (5.7) 68.3 65.3Europe (2.1) (3.8) 66.5 65.3North Africa 8.5 11.3 68.8 70.5Middle East 3.0 7.0 62.8 65.3Far East 3.3 (7.6) 72.1 64.5North America 6.3 (0.8) 70.5 65.815