Do you trust airlines? But millions of people daily use this mode of transport and feel completely comfortable. The largest airlines in Russia are leaders in the transportation of passengers over long distances connecting continents, continents and countries. Let's try to figure out who in our country claims leadership and who can be trusted with their lives.
Leaders in passenger traffic
Here is a list of the largest airlines in Russia:
- "Aeroflot".
- Transaero.
- UTair.
- S7 Airlines.
- "North wind".
- Ural Airlines.
- "Russia".
- "Orenburg Airlines".
- "Icarus".
- "Globe".
In 2015, the situation on the air transportation market was not entirely favorable. As statistics show, in the first six months, many carriers lostup to 1.4% of its average ridership for the previous year. For example, Transaero, the leader of international transportation, lost 4.2% over the spring-summer period compared to the same period in 2014.
Demand drop by 5.7% was felt by Sibir, and UTair lost almost a third of its passenger traffic. The increase in sales is felt only by Aeroflot and Rossiya. Moreover, the share of the latter increased by as much as 21% last year.
If you add up all the data, it turns out that in the first half of 2015, Russia's largest airlines lost 15 million 520 thousand passengers.
Aeroflot
Aeroflot is truly the leader in transportation in Russia. The company even managed to get into the Guinness Book of Records due to the huge passenger traffic. In 2014, this figure was 67 million 121 thousand. For your information, passenger traffic is the number of people traveling back and forth. Thus, the number indicates how much turnover the company is able to serve in a year. And so, in total, 23 million 610 thousand people used the services of Aeroflot last year.
Transaero
The rating of Russia's largest airlines is impossible to imagine without Transaero. This company always goes side by side with Aeroflot and is inferior only in some numbers. If you look at the ranking by the number of flights with international traffic, then this carrier would undoubtedly take the firstplace.
This is not surprising, because Transaero provides transportation to all five continents, connects the world's largest cities and allows our compatriots to travel without borders. Last year, the passenger traffic indicator stopped at 47,66,000 passenger-kilometers. A little over 13 million passengers were transported in a year.
UTair
Over 25 years of operation, the company has managed to win a good share of the Russian air transportation market. To date, it closes the top three in the ranking of "The largest airlines in Russia in terms of passenger traffic." Planes fly to 85 points of the world, including the cities of our vast country.
For its passengers, UTair offers 4 service options: economy, comfort, business and premium. People flying in economy class can only count on soft drinks, comfort means more comfortable seats, a warm blanket and lunch during the flight. The business is even better developed, but only high-ranking personalities use the premium, since they have a separate entrance and exit, as well as a comfortable cabin and flights exclusively on the best aircraft. Passenger turnover in 2014 amounted to 20 million passenger-kilometers.
S7 Airlines
S7 Airlines (or, as it is commonly called, "Siberia") is the largest domestic carrier. Of course, the inhabitants of Siberia can take advantage of thiscarrier for flights to the CIS countries, East Asia and the Middle East.
In 2014, S7 Airlines reached its peak in terms of passenger traffic, which amounted to 15 million passenger-kilometers. During this period, almost 7 million people used the services of the carrier.
North Wind
Although most people associate the name of the company with the fact that the air carrier operates its flights to northern destinations, this is not so. The main airport is Sheremetyevo in Moscow, and flights are carried out to almost all the most popular resort cities in Russia and the world. It is thanks to its routes that the Nord Wind was able to get into the rating of "The Largest Airlines of Russia".
In 2014, 4 million 472 thousand people flew to any resort city in the world aboard the Nord Wind aircraft. In the same year, passenger traffic was 13.4 million passenger-kilometers.
World leaders in the number of passengers carried
Let's consider the largest airlines in Russia and the world in terms of the number of passengers carried.
- The US company American Airlines is in first place with 193 million people. This is the largest company in the world, making transportation to almost all points of the globe.
- Second place also belongs to the representative from the USA - Delta Air Lines. 164 million passengers a year do not allowbypass American Airlines.
- And one more American company, United Airlines, completes the top three. It is capable of handling 30,000 fewer passengers than its closest rival, Delta Air Lines.
- Southwest Airlines - USA again and 133 million people.
- Oddly enough, but Ireland is fifth with Ryanair and 81 million people.
- China found itself in sixth place and its company China Eastern Airline with 79 million people.
- It's time for Europe to prove that passengers fly from it to all cities of the world. And they do it from Germany - Lufthansa and 76 million people.
- Eighth place was again in China. This time it is China Southern Airlines with 64 million people.
- British airline EasyJet carries just over 61 million people.
- China closes the top ten. China Airways is capable of serving 51 million passengers.
The largest Russian airlines Aeroflot and Transaero could only enter the top thirty. They are not among the leaders.
World leaders in passenger traffic
As for such an indicator as passenger traffic, then the places were distributed a little differently. Recall that the largest Russian airlines in terms of passenger turnover are Aeroflot, Transaero and UTair. As for the last company, it, unfortunately, never got into the world ratings at all, its scope is too small.service. But the leaders of the domestic market can often be found in the lists of the largest airlines in the world.
So, here is the ranking of the world's air carriers according to passenger traffic data:
- Heads the rating of American Airlines, given the fact that a couple of years ago there was a merger with another American company. Thanks to this, the company has become a world leader, and its indicator for 2014 is 346.878 billion passenger-kilometers.
- United Airlines is in second place, although in the previous ranking it was in third position - 330.124 billion passenger-kilometers.
- Delta Air Lines ranks third with 313.809 billion passenger-kilometers.
- Fourth place honorably occupied by "United Arab Airlines", which serve the whole of Southeast Asia. Passenger traffic is 215.353 billion passenger-kilometres.
- Let's stop at the fifth line, which belongs to Germany - Lufthansa with the number of 153.204 billion passenger-persons for the year.
