OREANDA-NEWS. On 10 April 2008 was announced, that since January, 2005 Moscow International Airport Domodedovo has been steadily maintaining its leading position in Moscow aviation hub in terms of passenger traffic.

According to performance results for March 2008, the airport welcomed 4,081,488 passengers between January and March 2008, that is 23.6% a rise over the same period of 2007. The passenger traffic in March, 2008 totaled 1,452,795 people, or 23.9% more than in March, 2007.

Flights to Saint-Petersburg, Krasnodar, Bangkok, Vienna, Novosibirsk, Dushanbe, Phuket, Mineralnye Vody, Madrid, and Khabarovsk registered the highest growth. From January through March, 2008, the airport serviced 773 320 passengers flying to these destinations, that is 1.7 times more than in first three months of 2007.

The intensity of take-offs and landing operations in March, 2008 was 14 699, an increase to the same period of last year by 14.3%.