PEGASUS AIRLINES DOUBLES PRE-TAX PROFITS IN FIRST NINE MONTHS

Turkey’s low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines has increased its pre-tax profits by 93% to 226 million Turkish Liras for the first nine months of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012 according to the Public Disclosure Platform’s (KAP) financial data as of September 30, 2013. During the same period its Operational EBITDAR reached 464 million Turkish Liras, representing a year-on-year increase of 53% compared to last year’s 302 million Turkish Liras. Having announced a strong traffic data for the January-September 2013 period, Pegasus carried 12.6 million guests, representing a year-on-year increase of 22%. In this same period, the load factor