The Northern Capital Gateway company, which manages Pulkovo Airport, reports on the results of production activities for 9 months of 2021.

According to operational data, from January 1 to September 30, 2021, Pulkovo Airport served 13.5 million passengers, which is 11% less than in the same period in 2019.

At the same time, 11.9 million passengers were served on domestic flights (+ 30% over the same period in 2019). The most popular destinations in Russia during this period were Moscow, Sochi, Kaliningrad, Simferopol, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Arkhangelsk, Kazan and Murmansk.

Pulkovo airport served 1.6 million passengers on international routes, which is -73% over the same period in 2019. Amid the restrictions associated with the pandemic, Antalya, Istanbul, Larnaca, Yerevan, Frankfurt am Main, Paphos, Tashkent, Osh, Urgench and Samarkand have become the leaders among the directions since the beginning of the year.

Russia, Pobeda, Smartavia, Aeroflot and S7 Airlines became the leaders among Russian airlines in terms of the volume of traffic over the indicated period. In total, they served 9.8 million passengers at Pulkovo.

Among foreign airlines, Turkish Airlines, Uzbekistan Airways, Lufthansa, KLM, and Finnair demonstrated the largest volume of traffic. These carriers carried 255 thousand passengers through Pulkovo.