Russia’s second-biggest airline group, S7 Airlines, reported its traffic increased by 29.5% YoY in July, while Aeroflot Group’s July traffic was up by 5.4% YoY.
Working under the S7 brand, airlines Sibir and Globus carried 1.5 million passengers in July. Aeroflot and its subsidiaries carried 4.4 million passengers.
Aeroflot Group includes Russian flag carrier Aeroflot, low-cost carrier Pobeda, Far East subsidiary Aurora and St. Petersburg, Russia-based Rossiya Airlines, which is consolidating with Donavia and OrenAir.
According to S7, domestic traffic grew by 32.9% YoY in July to 1.09 million passengers, while international traffic was up by 21.8% YoY to 431,671 passengers.
“The delivery of six additional aircraft this spring allowed us to increase frequencies and to launch a new service”, S7 Commerce Director Igor Veretennikov said.
Aeroflot’s international traffic grew by 12.2% YoY to 1.86 million passengers, while domestic traffic increased by 1% YoY to 2.57 million passengers. Aeroflot Group’s fleet has increased by 9 aircraft since the beginning of 2016. Aeroflot is based at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport.
S7 member airlines are based at Moscow’s Domodedovo International and Novosibirsk’s Tolmachevo airports. (Russian Aviation/Business World Magazine)