OREANDA-NEWS. On 21 May 2008 was announced, that Vnukovo Airport’s international passenger numbers over the January – April period of this year stand at 699,8 thousand, representing a 25,7 percent improvement against the same period of last year, with the routes to Istanbul, Hurghada, Yerevan, Brno, Lugansk, Milano, and Marsa Alam, topping the Airport’s most-popular list.

As regards domestic passengers, the Airport has welcomed a total of 1 million 427,9 thousand air travelers in the January-April [‘08] period, improving its same-period-of-last-year indicator by 45,6 %, with the destinations of St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Grozny, Rostov-on-Don, Kaliningrad, Tyumen and Murmansk posting best passenger growth results.

The monthly passenger total for April tallied at 604,2 thousand air travelers, which is 27,8% better than in the April of 2007. The international passengers in April totaled 207,7 thousand, showing a 17,7 % improvement against the same month of last year. The number of domestic air travelers the Airport welcomed during the past month grew by 33,8 percent [against last year’s April], totaling 396,5 thousand.