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

According to this statistics, the passenger turnover of the airlines during the accounting period was 84 774 420.68 thousand passenger-kilometers, (+18,8% as compared to the same period of the last year). The cargo turnover was 2 429 547.13 thousand ton-kilometers (+5,8%).

During the accounting period (January-June 2012) Russian carriers have transported 31 943 471 passengers (+17% as compared to the same period of 2011). The scope of transported cargo and mail was 468 220.26 tons (+4.4%). The passenger load factor has remained at 75,6% mark and the commercial load factor was 63.7%.

As for the June statistics, the Russian airlines have transported 7 440 157 passengers (+13.5%) and 74 848.13 tons of cargo and mail (-7%).

The top-5 carriers by passenger traffic in January-June 2012 are as follows: Aeroflot has transported 7 938 444 passengers (+27,2% as compared to the same period of 2011), Transaero - 4 345 147 passengers (+26.2%), UTair - 3 570 805  passengers (+53.4%), Siberia - 2 716 131 passengers (+21%), Rossiya - 1 857 665 passenger (+25.1%).

The five leading airlines by cargo traffic are: AirBridgeCargo – 173 394.3 tons of cargo and mail (+2.6% compared to the same period of 2011), Aeroflot – 91 247.4 tons of cargo and mail (+27.6%), Volga-Dnepr - 35 234 tons of cargo and mail (+16.3%), Transaero – 27 384.3 tons of cargo and mail (+29,6%), Siberia – 16 863 tons of cargo and mail (0%).