Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, has summed up two subsidy programs—the regional flights and the Volga region subsidy programs—for 2015, ATWonline reported.

Under a regional flights subsidy program, Russian airlines carried 548,061 passengers in 2015, up 3.4% year-over-year. According to Rosaviatsia, 26 airlines—includingAurora, Angara, RusLine, Pskovavia, Yakutia and Yamal—operated 10,919 flights on 133 destinations. The program cost RUB4.1 billion ($48 million) out of planned 4.2 billion. 

The route that was most in demand was Yakutsk-Blagoveshchensk operated by Yakutia Airline. The destination is followed by Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk-Blagoveshchensk and Krasnoyarsk-Mirny.

The Volga region subsidy program carried 102,603 passengers. Three airlines—Avia Management Group (under Dexter brand), YuVT-Aero and Orenburg Airport—took part in the program, which cost RUB550 million out of a planned RUB620 million.