S7 Airlines passenger volumes increase by 15.4%

The S7 Group airlines1 have reported their operational activity results for August 2018. Last month, the airlines transported 1,765,360 passengers, 15.4% more than in August 2017.

1,234,320 passengers flew with S7 Airlines domestically, 14.3 % more than in August 2017. Passenger volumes on international flights increased by 18.1%. In August 2018 the airline carried 531 040 passengers on international flights.

In the course of one month passenger turnover rose by 13% to reach 3,786,138 thousand pkm, while freight turnover increased by 12.6 % to 352 861 thousand tkm.

“S7 Airlines has ended the peak Summer season with very successful results. In the last nine months the S7 Group airlines have transported more than 10.5 million passengers. This year we offered passengers an even wider choice of attractive travel destinations, and these have seen a lot of demand: Sardinia, Bari, Reykjavík, Copenhagen, Stockholm. Residents of Novosibirsk are now able to fly direct to Cyprus and Tokyo. We have also continued the ongoing renewal of our fleet of airliners: passengers of S7 Airlines were the first passengers in the country to experience the luxury of flying on the new Airbus A321neo”, says Igor Veretennikov, Commercial Director of the S7 Group.

In August, S7 Airlines introduced new status levels in its S7 Priority loyalty program: these allow participants to earn privileges after only their fourth flight. The Classic level now has four new status levels— Junior, Master, Expert and Top.