Aeroflot has summed up the operational results of the New Year holiday period. Between 31 December 2022 and 8 January 2023 the airline operated 3,115 flights transporting 476,000 passengers. Out of these, over 340,000 people were carried on domestic routes.
The most popular destinations for passengers travelling from Moscow were:
- Saint Petersburg (20,000 passengers)
- Sochi (13,100 passengers)
- Kaliningrad (9,900 passengers)
- Yekaterinburg (8,900 passengers)
- Phuket (8,900 passengers)
- Istanbul (8,700 passengers)
- Kazan (8,400 passengers)
- Mineralnye Vody (8,200 passengers)
- Vladivostok (7,200 passengers)
- Dubai (7,100 passengers)
The maximum number of passengers travelled to Moscow and Mineralnye Vody, from Saint Petersburg, and to Moscow from the Krasnoyarsk hub.
The highest load factor was on flights between Moscow and the following cities:
- Saint Petersburg
- Yekaterinburg
- Kaliningrad
- Kazan
- Sochi
Following Aeroflot’s tradition, all passengers on New Year’s Eve flights departing and arriving in Moscow were served champagne, sparkling wine and chocolates.
Aeroflot held New Year’s Eve raffles on 17 flights scheduled to be in the air at midnight. Twenty four free economy class round-trip tickets to any destination in the Aeroflot route network were raffled off among 4178 travellers.
