BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 26. The number of passengers arriving at Erzurum International Airport in Türkiye amounted to 258,787 people with an increase of six percent in March 2023, the Turkish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Türkiye told TurkicWorld, Trend reports.
According to the ministry, in the reporting month, the airport's passenger traffic on domestic flights decreased by five percent and amounted to 256,360 people, while on international flights it increased by 25 percent, amounting to 2,427 people.
Meanwhile, the airport's cargo turnover decreased by five percent compared to March 2022 and equaled 2,137 tons. The airport's cargo turnover on domestic flights decreased by seven percent year-on-year and settled at 2,089 tons, while on international flights it grew by 2.1 times compared to March last year, reaching 48 tons.
As the ministry noted, the number of airport flights in March 2023 rose by nine percent year-on-year and amounted to 1,853. At the same time, the number of flights on domestic flights grew by eight percent and amounted to 1,806, while on international flights - by 62 percent, equaling 47.
Passenger traffic at all airports in Türkiye, in the reporting month, amounted to about 38.9 million people, while cargo turnover reached 833,949 tons.
In 2022, passenger traffic at all airports in the country reached 181.9 million people, while cargo turnover totaled four million tons.