OREANDA-NEWS. October 09, 2012. The booking and ticketing for train tickets via Internet is gaining more popular among passengers. Only in September this year, via Internet was sold more than 182 thousand tickets, and since the beginning of 2012 more than 1.4 million tickets have been sold.

The trend of growing popularity of services observed from year to year - in 2009, the passengers were purchased via Internet about 83.5 thousand tickets, in 2010 - 132.5 thousand tickets, in 2011 - 693.9 thousand tickets. Since the introduction of services in general it has been purchased more than 2.3 million train tickets. Today, more than 3.8% of the total sales of tickets are booked and sold via Internet.

For comparison, 10.7% of the tickets for air transportation in Ukraine are made via Internet.

In Germany, 42% tickets for railway is made via the Internet, Russia - 8, Poland - 5.3, Kazakhstan - 4.2, Hungary - 1.09, Czech Republic - 0.7, Belarus - 0.5.