Moscow, 2013-07-25 — /travelprnews.com/ — JSC “Aeroflot – Russian Airlines” summed up traffic and capacity statistics for June and 6 months of 2013.
In June 2013passenger traffic increased by 19.8% against the same period in 2012 and totaled 1,922.9 ths passengers. International passenger traffic rose by 12.4% (+122.2 ths passengers) reaching 1,106.9 ths passengers. The number of passengers served on domestic lines was 816.0 ths which is 31.5% more (+195.4 ths passengers) compared to the result of June 2012.
Seat load factor in June 2013 rose by 1.5 p.p. compared to 2012 and reached 79.9%.
Revenue load factor amounted to 64.3% which is 1.3 p.p. higher than the result of June 2012.
Passenger turnover of the company went up by 20.6% against the same period in 2012 and reached 5,386.9 mln passenger-kilometers. International passenger turnover totaled 3,507.3 mln passenger-kilometers which is 14.6% more compared to the same period of 2012. The domestic passenger turnover increased by 33.5% against June 2012 and amounted to 1,879.6 mln passenger-kilometers.
The results for 6 months of 2013 show that the number of carried passengers increased by 20.2% (+1,603.2 ths passengers) to become 9,541.6 ths passengers. The seat load factor totaled 77.1%, exceeding the result of the corresponding period of 2012 by 2.3 p.p. Passenger turnover of Aeroflot was 27,774.4 mln passenger-kilometers, which represents 22.8% (+ 5,155.4 mln pkm) increase compared with the results for 6 months of 2012.
The information indicated above refers to JSC “Aeroflot” standalone and does not include the results of the subsidiary airlines.
Celebrating its 90-th anniversary in 2013, Aeroflot is Russia’s flagship airline and the largest national air company. Proudly being a member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance, Aeroflot with its partnering members provides service to more than 1000 destinations in 178 countries. Aeroflot operates one of the most modern and youngest fleets in Europe counting 137 aircraft formed by Airbus, Boeing and Sukhoi airliners with an average airplane age between five and six years old. In 2012 Aeroflot carried 17.7 million passengers (27.5 million passengers as Aeroflot Group), continuously showing the best results in modern Russia’s history. In June 2013 Aeroflot was for the second time awarded by SKYTRAX as The Best Airline in Eastern Europe. Find more at www.aeroflot.com.
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