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In July, the largest Russian airline passenger traffic increased

Russian Aviaton » Wednesday August 24, 2016 13:41 MSK

Russia’s second-biggest airline group, S7 Airlines, reported its traffic increased 29.5% year-on-year (YOY) in July, while Aeroflot Group’s July traffic was up 5.4% YOY, ATWonline reported.

Working under the S7 brand, airlines Sibir and Globus carried 1.5 million passengers in July. Aeroflot and its subsidiaries carried 4.4 million passengers.

Aeroflot Group includes Russian flag carrier Aeroflot, low-cost carrier Pobeda, Far East subsidiary Aurora and St. Petersburg, Russia-based Rossiya Airlines, which is consolidating with Donavia and OrenAir.

According to S7, domestic traffic grew 32.9% YOY in July to 1.09 million passengers, while international traffic was up 21.8% YOY to 431,671 passengers. “The delivery of six additional aircraft this spring allowed us to increase frequencies and to launch new service,” S7 Commerce Director Igor Veretennikov said.

Aeroflot’s international traffic grew 12.2% YOY to 1.86 million passengers, while domestic traffic increased 1% YOY to 2.57 million passengers. Aeroflot Group’s fleet has increased by nine aircraft since the beginning of 2016. Aeroflot is based at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport.

S7 member airlines are based at Moscow’s Domodedovo International and Novosibirsk’s Tolmachevo airports.