Turkey's airport authority announced on 7th July, the number of air passengers, including transit passengers in Turkey totaled 36.48 million in the first half of this year.
Data showed by the General Directorate of the State airports authority, in the same period last year the the figures was 94.9 million passengers, but these numbers are due to travel restrictions to stem the virus's spread.
In the first six months the number of international passengers was 14.55 million. Nearly 21.9 million domestic passengers traveled through Turkish airports in the same period. Turkish airports served for more than 464,290 planes, including overflights in January – June period.
The DHMI data showed, comparing with the previous period the cargo traffic was 1.03 million tons.
During the first six months, Istanbul's New Airport served 12.9 passengers and 96.253 planes.
In June Turkey served 2.75 million passengers, 55.814 aircraft and 89.248 tons of mail and cargo.
