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Turkish Airlines

Essential performance statistics

 Discover how Turkish Airlines performed in 2025 with key metrics such as capacity, frequency, ASKs and busiest routes. 

 

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Main Hub: Istanbul Airport (IST)
Country / Territory: Türkiye
Alliance: Star Alliance
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Capacity

86,090,610

⬆ 7.2% YoY
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Frequency

422,738

⬆ 7.7% YoY
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ASKs

243,417,159,100

⬆ 6.7% YoY

 

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Routes

818

 🡇  0.5% YoY

Turkish Airlines: 2025 in stats

  • Turkish Airlines operates in more countries than any other airline and ranks as the 12th largest carrier by capacity, climbing to ninth place when measured by ASKs due to longer-than-average sector lengths.
  • The airline's growth of 7.2% in 2025 is driven by an 8% increase in international capacity, while domestic capacity increased by 5%.
  • Turkish Airlines reduced the number of routes operated slightly in 2025, down 0.5% to 818 routes.
  • When compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019, only the Middle East market is down on 2019 levels, with a reduction in capacity of 23%. Overall, the airline is 12% larger than in 2019.
  • Turkish Airlines' domestic capacity accounts for 24% of the airline's total operation and all of the carrier's top four routes connect Istanbul with other Turkish cities.

 

Turkish Airlines: Capacity by type

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Turkish Airlines: Capacity by region 

Turkish Airlines: Top five country markets

Turkish Airlines: Top 5 busiest airports

 

Top 5 busiest international routes

  •  IST-LHR
  • IST-VKO
  • CDG-IST
  • ECN-IST
  • DXB-IST 

Top 5 busiest domestic routes  

  • BJV-IST
  • AYT-IST
  • ADB-IST
  • ESB-IST
  • COV-IST
 

Turkish Airlines: Aircraft fleet composition

 


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