Pegasus passengers rise 29 pct

Bloomberg

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International passengers rose 16 percent over the same period, Pegasus Chairman Ali Sabancı told reporters Friday in Istanbul. The airline carried about 200,000 domestic and 600,000 international passengers in the first four months, Chief Executive Sertaç Haybat said.

Turkish fuel retailer Petrol Ofisi signed an agreement with Pegasus to reward the retailer’s customers with free domestic flights. Petrol Ofisi Chief Executive Melih Türker made the announcement at a news conference in Istanbul Friday.

Meanwhile, Turkish Airlines on Thursday said passenger numbers rose 9 percent from a year earlier to 9 million in the first five months of 2009.

Global transit passengers jumped 43 percent and business-class passengers traveling on international flights increased 3 percent, the company said.