Turkish Airlines, given the financial discipline and dynamic demand management applied since the beginning of 2017, with $939 million in 2017 Q3, posted record net profit of all third quarters in the company’s history.
The nine-monthly operating net profit is recorded as $956 million.
The successful third quarter marked a 23 per cent increase in total revenues compared to the same period of 2016, reaching $3.6 billion.
The nine-monthly average on total revenues marked $8.2 billion, with an 8 per cent increase.
According to Turkish Airlines 2017 Q3 financial results, the margin of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization increased 90 per cent to $1.5 billion.
The 41 per cent EBITDA margin confirms the Airline’s position amongst the most profitable airlines of the industry.
“The net profit recorded in 2017 Q3, clearly demonstrates our capacity to generate cash,” Turkish Airlines Chairman of the Board and the Executive Committee, İlker Aycı, said. “As the Turkish Airlines family with our common aim to become one of the leading five star airlines of the world, we will continue this growth trend without ever compromising form our service quality. As largest exporter of Turkey, our march will continue to position Istanbul as a major hub for international airport.”
According to the 2017 Q3 financials, Turkish Airlines with 81.5 per cent reached the highest September occupancy capacity of the past five years.
The airline’s occupancy capacity increased by 17 per cent compared to Q3 of 2016, with the airline serving 21.3 million passengers.
Hence the nine-monthly average reached 79 per cent occupancy, reaching 52 million passengers.
Financial measures applied translated as 6 per cent decrease in the nine-monthly operational costs.
As to Turkish Cargo, the company increased destinations from 55 to 72 as of 2017 Q3, reaching to 294,000 tons of cargo with 29 per cent increase.
Turkish Cargo in the third quarter of 2017 also increased revenues by almost 40 per cent, reaching $343 million.
Turkish Cargo was recently awarded with the “Best Air Cargo Carrier in Asia”.
Along with the new destinations of 2017 such as Samara and Phuket, the number of destinations served by the flag carrier reached 300 in the third quarter of 2017, including 49 domestic and 251 international destinations in 120 countries.
The fleet of Turkish Airlines, one of the youngest of the world, contains 223 narrow body planes, 90 wide body planes and 16 cargo planes, a total of 329 aircrafts.