The combined passenger traffic of Russian airlines fell by 26.6% on the year to 6.57 million people in March, the Federal Air Transport Agency said on Wednesday with a reference to operating data.

National flagship carrier Aeroflot’s passenger traffic plummeted by 41.5% in March to 1.8 million people, and the traffic of its subsidiary Rossiya Airlines plunged by 41.7% to 415,100 people. At the same time, the traffic of Pobeda, the low-cost branch of Aeroflot, grew 3% to 748,000 people.

The passenger traffic of S7 Airlines rose by 10.2% to 999,600 people and of Ural Airlines went down 25.4% to 494,900 people.

In January–March, the combined traffic of Russian airlines fell by 5.3% to 23.4 million passengers.

In 2019, the passenger traffic of rose 10.3% to 128.1 million people.