MOSCOW - Russian airlines carried 31.7 million passengers in H1 2012, 16.2% more than in the same period of last year, Russia's Federal Aviation Agency (Rosaviatsia) said in a statement.
They flew 7.205 million in June, up 9.9%.
Passenger traffic rose 17.4% to 83.755 billion passenger-km in H1.
Seat occupancy in H1 was 75.5%, or 1.2 pp higher than a year previously, and the commercial load factor was 64.2%, up 1.1 pp.
Airlines carried 464,500 tonnes of cargo and mail in H1, up 3.6%
year-on-year. Freight traffic rose 4.5% to 2.4 billion tonne-km.
“Rosaviatsia forecasts that the rate of growth in passenger numbers
will be sustained this year, thanks to the liberalization of air
communications with several countries and the development of
inter-regional and subsidized Far Eastern flights,” the agency’s chief,
Alexander Neradko, has said.
