OREANDA-NEWS. On 21 July 2008 was announced, that in the first six months of 2008 Rossiya - Russian Airlines carried a total of 1,530,454 passengers in its own aircraft fleet (an increase of 14,3% on the same period in 2007). The total includes 738 479 passengers carried on domestic routes (-0,7%), and 791,975 on international and CIS routes (+33%). The growth of passenger turnover was 25,3%. Rossiya Airlines aircrafts completed 17,647 flights, up  7,8% on the same period in 2007. The total flying time increased by 14,7% to 42,736 hours

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.