Turkish Airlines Jan passenger numbers up 21.9 pct

Turkey's flag-carrier Turkish Airlines' said on Monday that passenger numbers in January rose 21.9 percent to 2.6 million from 2.1 million a year ago.

Load factor in the same period was 72.1 percent, up 4.9 percentage points from January 2011, Turkish Airlines said in a statement to the Istanbul Stock Exchange.

Shares in Turkish Airlines were up 3.41 percent to 2.73 lira, outperforming the Istanbul bourse which traded 1.22 percent higher at 0927 GMT.

Turkish Airlines cancels 70 flights over bad weather

Turkey's national air carrier, Turkish Airlines (THY), has cancelled 70 flights on Wednesday due to bad weather conditions.

Turkey's national air carrier, Turkish Airlines (THY), has cancelled 70 flights on Wednesday due to bad weather conditions.
Among THY's cancelled flights from Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport were those to Tel Aviv, Paris, Venice, Geneva, Madrid, Basel, Kiev, Tirana, Zagreb, Helsinki, Nice, Cairo, Naples, Hamburg, Tbilisi, Amsterdam and Ashkabat.
Some of THY's flights to Ankara, Izmir, Antalya, Adana, Kayseri and Gaziantep were also cancelled on Wednesday.
THY's flights between Trabzon-Istanbul, Diyarbakir-Ankara and Malatya-Ankara will not take place on Wednesday due to bad weather.