Aeroflot flies 24.6% more passengers in 2012

For the month of December 2012 JSC “Aeroflot – Russian Airlines” passenger traffic increased by 16.3% against the same period in 2011 and totaled 1,393,600 passengers. International passenger traffic rose by 22.9%, while the number of passengers served on domestic lines was 567,700 which is 7.8% more passengers compared to December 2011.
Seat load factor in December 2012 rose by one percentage point to 73.6%. Revenue load factor reached 61.6%, up 1.1%.
Passenger turnover of the company rose by 19.7% against the same period in 2011 and reached 4,139 mn passenger-kilometers. International passenger turnover totaled 2,862 mn passenger-kilometers which is 25.0% more compared to the same period of 2011. The domestic passenger turnover increased by 9.3% against December 2011 and amounted to 1,277 mn passenger-kilometers.
Aeroflot cargo-mail tonnage totaled 16,155 tonne which is 0.4% more compared to December 2011.
For the 12 months of 2012, Aeroflot carried 24.6% more passengers to 17,656,000. The seat load factor totaled 77.9%. Passenger turnover of Aeroflot was 50,533 mln passenger-kilometers, which represents 20.3% increase compared with the results for 12 months of 2011.