Air passenger traffic up 19% in Q1 2017 - Rosaviatsia
MOSCOW. April 10 (Interfax) - Air passenger traffic grew 18.7% year-on-year in Q1 2017 to 19.6 million passengers, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) said.
Passenger turnover increased 22.9% to 49.494 billion passenger-kilometers in January-March and cargo turnover - 24.6% to 1.722 billion tonne-kilometers. Seat occupancy came to 78.3%, up 2.4 percentage points and commercial loading was 66.6%, up 3.4 percentage points. Mail and cargo shipments grew 23.9% to 249,800 tonnes.
Airlines carried 6.86 million passengers in March 2017, a year-on-year growth of 17.7%.
Passenger turnover was 17.241 billion passenger-kilometers in March, up 22.4%, and cargo turnover - up 24.9% to 682.993 million tonne-kilometers. Seat occupancy came to 79.1%, up 1.2 percentage points and commercial loading was 68.6%, up 3.2 percentage points. Mail and cargo shipments grew 27.7% to 99,166 tonnes.