THY reports December traffic and 2018 forecasts

For the month of December 2017, Turkish Airlines (THY) passenger traffic increased by 21.4% to 5.5 million passengers from 4.5 million passengers for the same period of 2016. Domestic traffic rose by 26.4%, with international lines up by 17.6%. Total load factor increased by 5.1 percentage point to 79.7%, with the international load factor up by 5.0 percentage points. During the period, RPK increased by 16.3% to 11.2 billion compared to 9.7 billion for the same period of 2016. Increase in RPK in domestic and international lines are 26.9% and 14.7%, respectively. For the full year 2017, THY carried 68.6