Federal Air Transport Agency has unveiled the statistics on passenger and cargo traffic of Russian airlines in January-March 2012. AEX.ru

According to this statistics, the passenger turnover of the airlines during the accounting period was 37 201 584,01  thousand passenger-kilometers, (+ 21,8% as compared to the same period of the last year). The cargo turnover was 1 150 005,99  thousand ton-kilometers (+ 10,2%).

During the accounting period (January-March 2012) Russian carriers have transported 13 378 813 passengers (+20.2% as compared to the same period of 2011). The scope of transported cargo and mail was 224 742,52 tons (+8.9%). The passenger load factor has remained at 74,4% mark and the commercial load factor was 62.3%.
As for the March statistics, the Russian airlines have transported 4 737 529 passengers (+21.6%) and 88 703,95 tons of cargo and mail (+4.2%).

The top-5 carriers by passenger traffic in January-March 2012 are as follows: Aeroflot has transported 3 599 533  passengers (+29,3% as compared to the same period of 2011), Transaero - 1 769 283 passengers (+38%), UTair - 1 596 313 passengers (+68.3%), Sibir’ - 1 160 156  passengers (+14.1%), Rossiya - 723 110  passenger (+23.8%).

The five leading airlines by cargo traffic are: AirBridgeCargo – 84 077,7 tons of cargo and mail (+13.2% compared to the same period of 2011), Aeroflot – 42 195,4  tons of cargo and mail (+25.3%), Volga-Dnepr - 17 984,3 tons of cargo and mail (+14.4%), Transaero – 11 385,7 tons of cargo and mail (+23,9%), Sibir’ – 7 865  tons of cargo and mail (-4,3%).