OREANDA-NEWS. November 28, 2012. In October 2012 Vnukovo International Airport handled 13 900 flights that is 12,5% more than in October last year. It served more than 847 000 passengers, that corresponds to the increase on 17,6% respectively in comparison with 2011.

In October Vnukovo Airport served 509,000 passengers on domestic flights. Over the last year domestic route map of the airport has expanded flight destinations and today it includes 67 cities.

The largest increase of passenger traffic on domestic flights is recorded for flights of UTair.

Red Wings Airline continued to expand its route network in Russia. Traffic has also increased for Yakutia and for Rossia airlines. The most popular destinations in October have been Krasnodar, Makhachkala, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don and St. Petersburg.

Moreover, passenger traffic on scheduled international flights has increased significantly. For this period according to the central schedule Vnukovo served 222 thousand passengers on international flights, that corresponds to the increase on 115,3% than in October 2011. Over the past 12 months since last November new scheduled flights to 23 foreign cities have been opened:

Bratislava, Tallinn, Krivoy Rog (UTair airline), Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Dusseldorf (Lufthansa), Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya (Turkish Airlines), Heraklion, Rhodes, Corfu (Blue Bird Airways), Tel Aviv , Rome, Milan, Venice, Pardubice, London (Transaero Airlines), Paris (Transaero Airlines and Aigle Azur), Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk (Aerosvit), Tbilisi (Georgian Airways), Dresden (Yakutia).

14 airlines served international flights according to the central schedule. UTair airline has increased passengers traffic on scheduled international flights three times and has provided about a third of passenger traffic of the airport. In November new international carriers at Vnukovo (Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa, Transaero, Armavia, Aerosvit, Georgian Airways, Aigle Azur) handled out of Vnukovo more than 100 thousand passengers in this transportation sector.

During the first ten months of this year the airport served 130,300 flights and almost 8.3 million passengers that corresponds to the increase on 8.7% and 18.4% respectively in comparison with 2011.