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

According to this statistics, the passenger turnover of the airlines during the accounting period was 50 699 316.40 thousand passenger-kilometers, (+ 21,7% 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-April 2012) Russian carriers have transported 18 488 771 passengers (+19.8% as compared to the same period of 2011). The scope of transported cargo and mail was 310 706.91 tons (+8.9%). The passenger load factor has remained at 74,8% mark and the commercial load factor was 62.9%.

As for the April statistics, the Russian airlines have transported 5 109 989 passengers (+18.7%) and 85 811.34 tons of cargo and mail (+8.7%).

The top-5 carriers by passenger traffic in January-April 2012 are as follows: Aeroflot has transported 4 943 489 passengers (+29,3% as compared to the same period of 2011), Transaero - 2 404 935 passengers (+36.1%), UTair - 2 173 219 passengers (+63.5%), Siberia - 1 620 913 passengers (+15.2%), Rossiya - 1 008 581  passenger (+24.3%).

The five leading airlines by cargo traffic are: AirBridgeCargo – 115 764.2  tons of cargo and mail (+11.3% compared to the same period of 2011), Aeroflot – 59 680.3 tons of cargo and mail (+28.3%), Volga-Dnepr - 25 432.2 tons of cargo and mail (+25.9%), Transaero – 16 564.8 tons of cargo and mail (+25,9%), Siberia – 10 876.0 tons of cargo and mail (-4,1%).