Russian airline traffic grows 17% in first half of 2012

Russian airlines carried 32 million passengers during the first half, a 17% increase over the year-ago period, Russian Federal Air Transport Agency/Rosaviatsia said in a statement. International passenger numbers rose 24.3% to 16.3 million passengers and domestic traffic increased 10.3% to 15.7 million.

The total market share of Russia’s five biggest airlines increased to 64% from 57.7%.
Russia’s biggest airline, Aeroflot, carried eight million passengers, up 27.2% over the year-ago period.

St. Petersburg-based Rossiya reported carrying 1.9 million passengers, up 25.1%. Sibir, which is working under the S7 Airlines brand, follows with 2.7 million passengers, up 21%. Transaero Airlines reported 4.4 million, up 26.2%. UTair said it transported 3.6 million passengers, up 53.4%.

 (Polina Borodina - ATWOnline News)