OREANDA-NEWS. The board of directors of Aeroflot summarized the preliminary results of business of "Aeroflot - Russian Airlines" OJSC for 2006.

Last year the airline transported 7 million 290 thousand passengers and 145,3 thousand tons of mail and freights. The company performed 22 billion 406 million passenger-kilometers and 2 billion 885 million tonne-kilometers. The occupation ratio of passenger seats in 2006 amounted in general to 70,1%, the ratio of the revenue load was 57,7%.

In comparison with the level of 2005 the volume of works increased by all the indexes except for transportation of freights and amounted to: 108,7% (+583.7 thousand passengers) by passenger transportation, 108% (+1655,8 million passenger-kilometers) by passenger turnover, 105,4% (+148,6 million tonne-kilometers) by tonne-kilometers, 102,5% (+ 112 tons) by transportation of mail, 99,7% (-388,1 tons) by transportation of freights.