SunExpress Expands Fleet with 2,000 Additional Flights Amid Rising Demand

SunExpress expanded capability and brought over 2,000 flights to Turkey to fulfill strong demand throughout the longer 2023 tourism season. This helped the service exceed its passenger goal for overall numbers in 2023.

All-time excessive passenger numbers

CEO, Max Kownatzki, advised reporters within the Mediterranean hotel of Antalya that SunExpress, a joint assignment of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, flew nearly 10 million passengers from January to September, an all-time high, and carried out a report 88% load issue. The quantity is extensively better than the 7.9 million passengers serviced within the first 3 quarters of 2019, earlier than the covid19 epidemic interrupted international journey.

Kownatzki stated: “We have exceeded our objectives in passenger visitors and anticipate surpassing our aim of 12 million passengers by yr-end. To meet the continued demand for Turkey following the summer time, we've got extended our ability. We will hold to make a contribution to the usa’s purpose of welcoming 60 million tourists.”

Tourism in Turkey

According to facts discovered from the Culture and Tourism Ministry, over 33 million vacation makers travelled to Turkey between January and August closing yr which become a jump of just about 14% when in comparison year-on-year. The goal for the authorities is to welcome 60 million foreign guests, so as to see earnings rising to over $55 billion.

SunExpress' capacity increase equated to 500,000 extra tickets for the September-December duration of 2023, and Kownatzki said that the airline become increasing its record flying network with 15 new locations.

Naming the carrier, the “Turkish Tourism Ambassador” Kownatzki defined that the enterprise wants to make Turkey into an area tourists will go to all 12 months spherical. To try this, the company intends to utilise the history, environment, delicacies, and sports activities that Turkey has to offer.

Passenger numbers

In 2022, the Antalya-based airline flew a report 10.7 million passengers, commonly among Turkey and European nations, with an eighty five% load factor, exceeding pre-pandemic levels, as well as accomplishing the very best sales of $1.Fifty seven billion.

The recovery from the pandemic saw report tourist numbers in Turkey, giving the highest income to the point in which the authorities had to review their every year predictions. Arrivals improved 80.33% to 44.6 million, slightly brief of the file of 45.1 million in 2019. Income multiplied 53.Four% to a file excessive of about $46.Three billion as the pandemic's outcomes dwindled, and Russian immigration surged.

According to legitimate statistics, revenue jumped 27% to attain $21.7 billion from January to June. Tourism makes up about 10% of the GDP (gross domestic product) and additionally affords jobs for approximately 1.7 million people within the meals and accommodation offerings, which equated to 5% of general employment inside the usa.

Advanced bookings for 2024

SunExpress' Kownatzki referred to advanced bookings for 2024, that are 20% better than reservations for 2023. SunExpress ordered 42 Boeing planes, nine of that have been brought, and the business enterprise has taken further steps to control fleet growth in a sustainable way, which includes lowering seasonality outcomes.

Kownatzki said that: “With over 30 years of revel in inside the enterprise, we preserve to make a contribution to Turkish aviation and create jobs as a enterprise that has been offered the ‘Great Place to Work’ certificates via its employees.”