Russia has bypassed other countries in the growth rate of domestic flights
Passenger traffic on domestic flights in Russia, according to the Air Transport Association (IATA), in August 2021 grew by 32% at once compared to August 2019. With such indicators, Russia has become a leader.
IATA provides data in passenger kilometers, this is the number of passengers carried, multiplied by the distance. The largest countries in terms of the share of air transportation – China (-57%), India (-44.8%), the United States (-13.2%) – were in the red.
At the beginning of September, Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev noted that Russian airlines will carry 100 million people in 2021 and air transportation within the country will grow by 17% compared to 2019. In August, according to the Federal Air Transport Agency, the airline carried 13.9 million passengers, in January-August – 71.2 million in Russia and abroad.
The reason for the growth of domestic air traffic is the size of the country and the presence of territories where there is simply no alternative to aircraft.
The main reason for the growth of domestic traffic in Russia is the size of the country and the presence of territories where there is simply no alternative to air transport and the transport policy of the Higher School of Economics Fedor Borisov. Domestic transportation has great potential. But so far, the airline’s members fly to domestic lines at a loss. Subsidies make it possible to compensate for losses.
With the opening of international demand, it will also recover due to internal use, says the head of the AviaPort portal Oleg Panteleev. He.