14 Jan 2013 17:21

Russian airlines carry 15% more passengers in 2012

MOSCOW. Jan 14 (Interfax) - Russian airlines carried 74.015 million passengers in 2012, 15.4% more than in 2011, federal air transport agency Rosaviatsia said.

Passenger turnover grew 17.3% to 195.6 billion passenger-km.

Seat occupancy rose 1.1 pp to 78.3%. The commercial load factor rose 0.7 pp to 65.9%.

Airlines carried 997,500 tonnes of cargo and mail, up 1.6% year-on-year. Cargo turnover grew 2.2% to 5.058 billion tonne-km.

Russian airlines carried 64.122 million passengers and 981,000 tonnes of cargo and mail in 2011.