OREANDA-NEWS. According to results for August 2013, passenger traffic increased by 9.5% compared to August 2012 and amounted to 3.5 million travelers. The overall flights number grew by 4.3% and totaled 26.4 thousand takeoff and landing operations.

The largest passenger traffic growth in August recorded in international passenger traffic adding 13.7% to August 2012, reaching 2.17 million passengers.

Passenger traffic on domestic airlines in August 2013 grew by 3.5% compared to last year and amounted to 1.36 million travelers.

Domodedovo freight traffic for the last month of summer reached 17.2 thousand tons.

According to January-August of 2013 results, Moscow Domodedovo Airport passenger traffic amounted to 20.8 million people and increased by 11.3% compared with the same period in 2012. Flights number grew by 4.5% and amounted to 174.6 thousand takeoff and landing operations.

January-August 2013 passenger traffic results on domestic routes totaled 8.3 million passengers that 9.1% higher than for the same period of the last year. The utmost growth recorded on the following internal directions: Makhachkala, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar and Saratov. Passenger traffic on these directions reached 1.9 million people, that 25.1% higher than for the same period of the last year.

International passenger traffic for January-August of the current year totaled 12.5 million people (+ 12,7% to January-August 2012). The highest growth was recorded on the following international routes: Hurghada, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Antalya, Larnaca, Barcelona. In January-August of 2013 2.1 million passengers were transported to the mentioned directions, that is by 48.7% higher compared to the first eight months of 2012.

Domodedovo airport freight traffic for eight months of 2013 increased by 3.4% compared to the same period of 2012 year and totaled 127.1 thousand tons.