Russian passenger traffic down 32.5% in September

Russian passenger traffic fell 32.5% year-on-year to 8.65million passengers for August 2020. The overall turnover of passenger airlines fell 44.9% to 17.62bn RPKs. S7 was the largest airline in terms of passenger traffic with 1.43m passengers carried in September (+4.8%). Aeroflot had 1.32m passengers, down 60%. Pobeda airline caried 1.14m passengers (up 17.8%). In January to September 2020, Russian airlines carried 52.56m passengers, down 47% in annual terms, but domestic travel was up on 2019. The collapse in numbers came almost exclusively from international traffic.