Compared to 2009, Sheremetyevo served 31% more passengers last year, and missed the 20-million mark by a narrow margin, at 19 million 329 thousand passengers.

The international passenger traffic rose by 24%, to 12.3 million. The domestic sector grew faster, at 44%, and added 7 million to the grand total. In the whole of the past year the Moscow airport registered 184,488 takeoff and landing operations, 16.3% up than a year before. Aeroflot, Transaero and Avianova are phrased for their work. The most popular routes were those to St. Petersburg, Antalia, Paris, Istanbul, Prague, Beijing and Sharm-El-Sheikh.

Despite shortage of anti-icing liquids in Aeroflot stocks causing flight delays and cancellations in the last days of December, Sheremetievo served a record number of passengers that month. The rise was 21%, to 1.4 million passengers. If it was not for Aeroflot troubles, and the decision by the ministry of transportation to temporarily cancel all short-haul Aeroflot flights and instead carrying passengers on trains, Sheremetyevo might have reached the 20-million mark.

Last year the airport attracted ten new airlines and completed the massive reconstruction campaign. A new complex infrastructure objects, composed of the newly built and renovated Terminals D, E, F and the AeroExpress railway station, was complete and rendered operational. It measures over 400 thousand square meters and creates good conditions for further development of Sheremetievo as a big international hub.