OREANDA-NEWS. During nine months in 2014, NOVOSIBIRSK International Airport served 2,956,273 passengers representing growth of 8.8% compared to the same period in 2013. Passenger traffic on domestic routes totalled 1,803,152 passengers (+13.9%), on international routes - 1,153,121 passengers (+1.6%).

In January-September 2014, the airport provided operation of 32,356 aircraft movements (+7%). In August only, it reports 4,106 aircraft movements.

For the nine months' period of the current year, cargo and mail traffic reached 21,267 tons.

NOVOSIBIRSK International Airport is the largest air hub in Russia east of the Urals on major transit routes between Europe and Asia. The domestic terminal capacity makes up to 1,800 passengers per hour, while the capacity on international flights - up to 750 passengers per hour. The airport has two runways of ICAO CAT I and CAT II. In 2013 the passenger traffic exceeded 3.7 mln passengers and cargo traffic totalled 29.9 thousand tons of cargo and mail handled.