Russian air carriers were able to increase passenger traffic in the country.

Information about this sounded Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov during the meeting with Vladimir Putin. From the official text of the message should be that in just 8 months of this year, Russian airlines managed to increase passenger traffic in the country to 33 million passengers, which greatly exceeds the results of the past years, however, even though this factor, the overall performance Russian airline operations decreased by 8% - the culprit was a large reduction in flights on international routes.

Given the current data, experts believe that next year, for Russian airlines can occur quite optimistic period, all the more so in the near future it is planned to open air communication with Egypt, which will give an even more significant contribution.