Sky Express Passenger Traffic Surges

15.07.2008 (12:13)

Sky Express handled 489,335 passengers in the first half of 2008, a 2.5-times increase from the same period of the previous year, the Russian air carrier's press office reported today according to RBC.

The flights to St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad were the most popular, accounting for 17 percent and 14.5 percent of the total number of the airline's passengers, respectively. Passenger traffic surged 2.4 times to roughly 609.568m passenger-kilometers, and cargo traffic soared by a factor of 5.2 to 654,430 tonne-kilometers. The amount of cargo and mail transported by Sky Express increased sixfold to 463.2 tonnes.

In 2008, the airline plans to handle 1.8m people and win a 7-percent share of the domestic air transportation market.
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