Agency: Russian airlines’ passenger traffic falls 38% in January

MOSCOW, Feb 25 (PRIME) -- The combined passenger traffic of Russian airlines fell by 38.1% on the year to 5.55 million people in January, the Federal Air Transport Agency said Thursday providing revised data.

International traffic fell by 85% to 550,700 people, and domestic traffic decreased by 5.3% to almost 5 million people.

The passenger traffic of S7 Airlines went down 12.9% on the year to 1.2 million people in January, of Aeroflot plummeted by 60.4% to 1 million people, of Aeroflot’s low-cost subsidiary Pobeda fell by 0.5% to 928,000 people, of Ural Airlines plunged by 41.4% to 406,700 people, of Rossiya Airlines decreased by 31% to 391,300 people, and of Utair fell by 32.5% to 374,000 people.

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