OREANDA-NEWS. JSC "Aeroflot" ("the Company", Moscow Exchange ticker: AFLT) announces operating results of Aeroflot Group ("the Group") for August 2014 and the first eight months (8M) of 2014.

* Total passenger traffic for August 2014 increased 9.2% year-on-year to 3.77 mln. The main factor driving passenger traffic growth was a 26.8% increase in domestic traffic. International traffic for August 2014 was down 4.7% year-on-year, due in part to restructuring of Rossiya Airlines routes and increased numbers of flights of domestic routes (amid higher passenger load factor) and the Company ceasing to operate low-margin block charter flights on tourist routes.

Passenger traffic for 8M 2014 increased 10.7% year-on-year to 23.23 mln.

* August 2014 RPKs increased 7.6% year-on-year to 9.84 bln, with RPKs on domestic and international flights up 22.2% and down 0.4% year-on-year, respectively. Aeroflot Group's RPK for 8M 2014 increased 5.6% to 60.52 bln.

* The passenger load factor for August 2014 increased 1.0 percentage points year-on-year to 86.7%. On domestic routes the load factor was 89.9%, and 84.6% on international routes. The load factor was 78.9% in 8M 2014, an increase of 0.1 percentage point year-on-year.