The head of Rosaviatsia announced a 5% increase in passenger traffic in 2024

Passenger traffic of Russian airlines of the Russian Federation in 2024, according to preliminary data, increased by about 5% compared to last year. This was reported by the head of Rosaviatsia Dmitry Yadrov on January 2.

"As for transportation in the country as a whole, we are counting at the moment, but the growth was about 5% and, according to preliminary data, 111.3 million people were transported," TASS quoted Yadrov's statement to journalists as saying.

The volume of transportation through Moscow's Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports also grew by about 5%, amounting to 75 million people. Sheremetyevo, being Russia's largest air harbor, served about 20% more passengers than in 2024.

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Before that, on December 30 last year, the press service of Rosaviatsia said that in 2025 passengers will be able to fly at subsidized fares on 267 routes, including 72 new destinations that were not subsidized in 2024. It is planned that they will perform more than 40 thousand flights and carry more than 2.5 million people.

Earlier, on December 16, the Russian government informed that from January 1 to July 1, 2025 in the Russian Federation will begin pilot sale of tickets via the Internet for some categories of citizens participating in the program of subsidized air travel. These include young people under the age of 23, pensioners, disabled people and large families, as well as residents of the Far Eastern Federal District and the Kaliningrad Region.