OREANDA-NEWS. On August 14, 2008 JSC Aeroflot – Russian Airlines has summed up the results for the July and seven months of 2008, the press-centre of Aeroflot reported.

In July 2008, the airline carried 919.5 thous. passengers (including 7.9 thous. passengers on its charter flights) and performed 2 bln 646 mln passenger-kilometres. Passenger load factor amounted to 77.9%, and commercial load reached the 62.8% mark in July.

Compared to activities in 2007, July saw growth of the following performance indicators: carriage of passengers increased by 8.6%, and passenger turnover increased by 4.6%. The amount of passenger carriage on international flights rose by 1.7%, while the amount of domestic flights increased by 21.5%.

Over the seven months of 2008, Aeroflot carried 5 mln. 305 thous. passengers and performed 15 bln 354 mln passenger-kilometres. Passenger load factor amounted to 69.9%, and commercial load reached the 55.5% mark.

As compared to the indicators in 2007, over the seven months there were the following increases in the indicators: passenger carriage volume rose by 14.8%, while passenger turnover rose by 10.1%.