OREANDA-NEWS. August 17, 2007. Aeroflot - Russian Airlines' passenger numbers rose 16.4 percent to 4,620,000 between January and July 2007, compared to the same period a year earlier.

The top Russian carrier's passenger traffic grew 14.4 percent to 13.943bn passenger-kilometers in the same period, while its seat occupancy and payload factors reached 69.8 percent and 55 percent respectively.