Aeroflot Group reports passenger traffic up 11.5% in January-May | ATWOnline

Russia’s Aeroflot Group carried 15.8 million passengers from January to May, up 11.5% year-over-year (YOY).

Aeroflot Group includes Aeroflot Airline, the low-cost subsidiary Pobeda Airline, Far East subsidiary Aurora Airline, as well as Rossiya Airline, Orenburg-based OrenAir and Rostov-on-Don-based Donavia.

Moscow-based Aeroflot Airline carried 10.9 million out of the total traffic, up 13.6% YOY. Group RPKs grew 13.2% to 35.3 billion and load factor reached 77.4%, up 3 points YOY.

Aeroflot Airlines’ load factor was up 2 points to 77.7% during the period.

In May, the Group carried 3.5 million passengers, up 8.8% year-over-year, while the airline carried 2.4 million, up 12.4%. Domestic traffic for the Group grew 8.5% in May compared to the year-ago period, while international traffic increased 9.2%.

Aeroflot said in a statement it experienced increases in international traffic despite a flight ban to Ukraine, Egypt and a charter flight ban to Turkey.

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