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

According to this statistics, the passenger turnover of the airlines was 154 081 347,44 thousand passenger-kilometers, (+ 13,1% as compared to the same period of the last year). The cargo turnover was 4 515 502,69 thousand ton-kilometers (+ 4,3%).

During the accounting period (January – November 2011) Russian carriers have transported 59 469 181 passengers (+12,3% as compared to the same period of 2010). The scope of transported cargo and mail was 891 976,52 tons (+5,4%). The passenger load factor has remained at 77,5% mark and the commercial load factor was 65,1%.

Russian airlines have transported 4 760 669 passengers in November 2011 (+13%) and 92 060,67 tons of cargo and mail (+5.1%).

The top-5 carriers by passenger traffic during the period from January to November 2011 are as follows: Aeroflot has transported 12 975 449 passengers (+24,5% as compared to the same period of 2010), Transaero - 7 859 185 passengers (+27,5%), UTair - 5 265 744 passengers (+28,4%), Sibir’ - 4 710 780 passengers (+5.4%), Rossiya - 3 274 106 passenger (+14,1%).

The five leading airlines by cargo traffic are: AirBridgeCargo - 334 928,6 tons of cargo and mail (+16,9% compared to the same period of 2010), Aeroflot - 144 501,63 tons of cargo and mail (-3,7%), Volga-Dnepr - 55 460,7 tons of cargo and mail (-31,1%), Polet - 49 864,31 tons of cargo and mail (+11,5%), Transaero - 46 055,15 tons of cargo and mail (+27,6%).