Russian airline passenger numbers down 1.1% in April
MOSCOW. May 22 (Interfax) - Russian airlines flew 6.37 million passengers in April 2015, down 1.1% from the same period of last year, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) said.
Passenger traffic fell 6.5% to 15.653 billion passenger-kilometers. Seat occupancy fell 2.4 percentage points to 75% and the commercial load factor was down 2 pp to 64.2%.
Airlines carried 23.364 million passengers in January-April 2015, down 2% from the same period of last year. Passenger traffic fell 8.9% to 59.733 billion passenger-km. Seat occupancy fell 1.7 pp to 74.8% and commercial load fell 1.3 pp to 63.5%.
Russia's top five airlines carried 15.51 million passengers in the 4M, down 1.4% year-on-year.
Aeroflot - Russian Airlines 7.463 million, up 8.3%. Passenger traffic rose 8.9% to 21.535 billion pass-km while seat occupancy fell 0.3 pp to 75.4%.
But Transaero reported a 4.2% drop in passengers to 3.037 million, with traffic down 17% to 11.168 billion pass-km and occupancy down 2.4 pp to 79.95.
Sibir (S7) carried 2.142 million passengers, down 5.7%, with traffic down 8.8% to 4.118 billion pass-km and occupancy down 1.9 pp to 72.2%; Rossiya flew 1.458 million passengers, up 21.9% year-on-year, with traffic up 24.5% to 2.776 billion pass km and occupancy up 0.2 pp to 68.45; and UTair carried 1.407 million, down 36.1%, its traffic falling 45.;4% to 2.806 billion pass-km and seat occupancy down 4.7 pp to 70.3%.
