Russian air carriers boost passenger numbers

26.08.2010 (18:13)

Russian airlines hiked up their passenger transportation by 29.8 percent to 31.168 million people in the first seven months of 2010, the press office of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency reported today.

During the reporting period, passenger traffic climbed 35.2 percent to 80.211bn passenger-kilometers, and cargo traffic stood at 2.615bn tonne-kilometers, showing a rise of 45.8 percent.

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines alone transported 6.286m people (up 32.5 percent), and its passenger traffic equaled 19.3bn passenger-kilometers (up 38.3 percent). In July, all airlines increased the number of transported passengers by 25.7 percent to 6.601 million people, and passenger traffic rose 28.3 percent to 16.592bn passenger-kilometers.

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