Aeroflot reveals the most popular domestic destinations in the first half of 2024. In these six months, the airline carried a record 9.8 million passengers on its own flights in Russia, which is 26% more than in the first half of 2023 and 15% more than in January-June of the pre-pandemic 2019, when passenger traffic amounted to 8.5 million.

The domestic destinations with the fastest growth rate in the first half of the year were (compared to the first half of 2023) *

Moscow — Kirovsk — Moscow (+114%, 51,816 passengers transported)

Moscow — Penza — Moscow (+110%, 47,451 passengers transported)

Moscow — Murmansk — Moscow (+97%, 233,565 passengers transported)

Moscow — Grozny — Moscow (+83%, 88,243 passengers transported)

Moscow — Chelyabinsk — Moscow (+79%, 299,710 passengers transported)

Moscow — Orenburg — Moscow (+72%, 184,354 passengers transported)

Moscow — Novosibirsk — Moscow (+54%, 220,030 passengers transported)

Yekaterinburg — Sochi — Yekaterinburg (+54%, 82,634 passengers transported)

Moscow — Novokuznetsk — Moscow (+49%, 72,829 passengers transported)

Moscow — Kemerovo — Moscow (+48%, 78,866 passengers transported)

The most popular domestic destinations by passenger traffic in the first half of 2024 were*:

Moscow — Sochi — Moscow (863,278 passengers)

Moscow — Saint Petersburg - Moscow (786,225 passengers **)

Moscow — Kaliningrad — Moscow (502,839 passengers)

Moscow — Yekaterinburg — Moscow (463,207 passengers)

Moscow — Mineralnye Vody — Moscow (418,609 passengers)

Moscow — Vladivostok — Moscow (418,154 passengers)

Moscow — Kazan — Moscow (371,723 passengers)

Moscow — Ufa — Moscow (329,427 passengers)

Moscow — Samara — Moscow (320,085 passengers)

Moscow — Chelyabinsk — Moscow (299,710 passengers)

Record-breaking passenger traffic in the modern history of Aeroflot have been figured in all these directions. After the covid period and the introduction of sanctions restrictions, Aeroflot has consistently increased the volume of air traffic in Russia, contributing to the development of domestic tourism and business activity between the subjects of the Russian Federation. The total number of passengers transported on our own domestic flights in the first 6 months of 2022 amounted to 6.3 million, in 2023 — 7.8 million, in 2024 — 9.8 million.

In this June, the airline opened its own flights to three new destinations: Moscow — Cheboksary, Moscow — Elista and Krasnoyarsk — Yekaterinburg. During the first month of flights, 8,136 passengers were transported between Moscow and Cheboksary (seat occupancy was 88%), 4,223 passengers between Moscow and Elista (seat occupancy was 95%), 3,933 passengers between Krasnoyarsk and Yekaterinburg (seat occupancy was 96%)

*Only Aeroflot's own flights are counted, excluding subsidiary airlines.

**Taking into account Rossiya Airlines, the total passenger traffic in the first half of the year amounted to a record 1,499,426 people.