Federal Air Transport Agency has unveiled the statistics on passenger and cargo traffic of Russian airlines during a period of time from January to October 2011. AEX.ru

According to this statistics, the passenger turnover of the airlines was 141 210 338,49 thousand passenger-kilometers, (+ 13,1% as compared to the same period of the last year). The cargo turnover was 4 052 698,48 thousand ton-kilometers (+ 4,4%).

During the accounting period (January – October 2011) Russian carriers have transported 54 708 512 passengers (+12,3% as compared to the same period of 2010). The scope of transported cargo and mail was 799 915,85 tons (+5,5%). The passenger load factor has remained at 77,8% mark and the commercial load factor was 65,3%.

Russian airlines have transported 5 340 845 passengers in October 2011 (+7,8%) and 90 687,10 tons of cargo and mail (+1,2%).

The top-5 carriers by passenger traffic during the period from January to October 2011 are as follows: Aeroflot has transported 11 794 869 passengers (+23,9% as compared to the same period of 2010), Transaero - 7 252 691 passengers (+29,5%), UTair - 4 701 411 passengers (+24,3%), Sibir’ - 4 295 136 passengers (+4,1%), Rossiya - 3 017 147 passenger (+13,8%).

The five leading airlines by cargo traffic are: AirBridgeCargo - 302 038,4 tons of cargo and mail (+18,5% compared to the same period of 2010), Aeroflot - 128 081,8 tons of cargo and mail (-4,8%), Volga-Dnepr - 51 560,8 tons of cargo and mail (-30,5%), Polet - 44 069,8 tons of cargo and mail (+13,2%), Transaero - 40 782,8 tons of cargo and mail (+27,7%).