Sheremetyevo international airport has closed the books on November and 11 months of 2011. The number of serviced passengers has increased by 16,1% to 20 823 000 since the beginning of the year as compared to the last year’s indicators, the airport’s press-service reports. AEX.ru

The passenger traffic in international airlines has increased by 17,8% during the period from January to November and it is 13 436 000 passengers, as for domestic airlines – by 13,2 % to 7 387 000 passengers.

Sheremetyevo airport has serviced 1 744 000 passengers in November 2011, which is greater than the same figure in 2010 by 18.1%. Meanwhile, the number of passengers on international routes has increased by 20% to 1 103 000, and on domestic routes - by 15% to 641,000.

The most popular international destinations during the 11 months of this year were Antalya, Paris, Istanbul, Prague, Beijing, Kiev, Sharm el-Sheikh, Rome, Amsterdam and the federal ones were – St. Petersburg, Sochi, Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Rostov-on-Don and Samara.

The main increase of passenger traffic on international routes has been provided by Aeroflot, Transaero, Nordavia, Nordwind Airlines, AeroSvit, Donavia, Air France, Turkish airlines.

Sheremetyevo airport has performed 193100 takeoff and landing operations during the period from January to November 2011, 14% more than in the same period of 2010. The number of takeoff and landing operations has increased in November by 12,7% to 17,300.