OREANDA-NEWS. On 11 June 2008 was announced, that in the first four months of the year Rossiya - Russian Airlines carried a total of 824,963 passengers in its own aircraft fleet (an increase of 15,9% on the same period in 2007). The total includes 430,656 passengers carried on domestic routes (+2%), and 394,307 on international and CIS routes (+36,1%).

In 2007 Rossiya carried a total of  3,244,585 passengers in its own aircraft fleet. The Rossiya ”route map now encompasses 70 destinations in the Russian Federation, 20 in seven CIS countries, and 35 in twenty countries further afield. The planned introduction of modern medium- and long-haul airliners, the opening of new routes, the expansion of cooperation with partner airlines and its status of a designated carrier on international routes is enabling Rossiya to develop