The resort city is the leader among domestic routes, and the capital of Turkey is among foreign routes
Aeroflot Airlines has summed up the results of the first half of 2024. The carrier's analysts counted the number of passengers on flights and found out the most popular destinations for Russians, both in the country and abroad. In addition, the fastest growing flights in terms of passenger numbers have become known.
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Thus, according to the company's press release, in just the first six months, the airline carried 9.8 million passengers on its own flights within Russia, which is 26% more than in the same period in 2023. The most popular domestic route at the end of the first half of the year was Moscow — Sochi — Moscow, which served 863.3 thousand passengers. In second place was the route connecting the two capitals: Moscow — St. Petersburg — Moscow (786.2 thousand passengers). Third place was taken by flights from the capital to Kaliningrad and back — 502.8 thousand passengers. Next come flights between Moscow and Yekaterinburg, Mineralnye Vody, Vladivostok, Kazan, Ufa, Samara and Chelyabinsk. As for the growth of passenger interest in the destinations, here are the following results. On two domestic routes, passenger traffic more than doubled in the first half of the year: between Moscow and Kirovsk (+114%, 51,816 passengers carried), Moscow and Penza (+110%, 47,451 people carried), and Murmansk was close to this (+97%, 233,565 people carried). The number of passengers also increased significantly on the routes between the capital and Grozny (+83% and 88,243 people), as well as Chelyabinsk (+79%, 299,710 passengers).
It should be noted that at the beginning of this summer, the airline opened its own flights on three new routes: Moscow — Cheboksary, Moscow — Elista and Krasnoyarsk — Yekaterinburg. During the first month of flights between Moscow and Cheboksary, 8.1 thousand passengers were transported (seat occupancy rate was 88%), between Moscow and Elista — 4.2 thousand passengers (seat occupancy rate was 95%), and between Krasnoyarsk and Yekaterinburg — 3.9 thousand passengers (seat occupancy rate was 96%).
In January-June of this year, the airline carried 4.2 million passengers on its own international flights, which is 34.1% more than in the first half of 2023. During this period, the most popular international destinations were flights between Moscow and Istanbul (more than 320 thousand passengers), Phuket (more than 245 thousand passengers) and Dubai (about 240 thousand passengers). The fourth in the ranking was the Moscow-Antalya-Moscow route, which served more than 229 thousand passengers. And the most popular in the near abroad was the flight connecting the capitals of the Russian Federation and Armenia. More than 227 thousand people flew to Yerevan and back in six months.
The fastest growing destinations were Chinese — from Moscow to Guangzhou and Beijing, and on the flight between the capitals of the Russian Federation and Belarus, passenger traffic increased by 1.4 times. Thus, 73.6 thousand passengers were transported to and from Guangzhou, which is three times more than the results of the same period last year, between Moscow and Beijing — 66.1 thousand passengers (an increase of 2.5 times). The number of people wishing to visit the Egyptian Sharm el-Sheikh also increased, between this city and Moscow more than 160 thousand passengers were transported, which is 1.4 times more than for the same period last year. The same growth was shown by flights between Minsk and Moscow: almost 205 thousand passengers flew on the airline's planes, an increase of 1.4 times. Flights between Moscow and Tehran increased by 1.3 times — 14.3 thousand passengers.