Aeroflot Group passenger traffic increases 2% in H1 2025

MOSCOW. July 11 (Interfax) - Aeroflot Group boosted passenger traffic 2025 1.4% year-on-year to 5.3 million travelers in June, the company said.

Domestic traffic increased 1% to 4.2 million passengers, and international traffic rose 3.2% to 1.1 million.

Passenger turnover increased 3.4%, while available seat kilometers (ASK) bumped 2.4%. The seat occupancy rate was 89.8% (+0.9 percentage points).

Aeroflot carried 2.8 million passengers (-0.5%): 1.95 million domestically (-4.5%) and 820,000 internationally (+10.7%). Its passenger turnover increased 5.4%, and the seat occupancy rate increased 2.1 percentage points to 87.3%.

In the first half of the year, the group's total passenger traffic increased 2% to 25.9 million people: international traffic increased 4.1% to 6.2 million people; domestic traffic increased 1.3% to 19.7 million. Passenger turnover increased 3.7%, maximum traffic increased 2.7%, and seat occupancy increased 0.8 percentage points to 89.1%.

Aeroflot's traffic decreased 0.7% to 13.9 million people in the first six months, including a 4.8% drop on domestic flights to 9.3 million people. International traffic increased 9.1% to 4.6 million people. Passenger turnover increased 7.2%, load factor increased 1.2 percentage points, to 88.1%.

In 2024, Aeroflot Group's passenger traffic grew 17% to 55.3 million, generating adjusted International Financial Reporting Standards profit of 64.2 billion ruble. The goal for 2025 is to maintain last year's operating and financial performance, CEO Sergei Aleksandrovsky said. According to the updated strategy, the group expects to transport 80 million passengers by 2030, versus the previous version of 65 million, while "much depends on the dynamics of the arrival of the new domestic fleet," Aleksandrovsky said. Aeroflot hopes to receive 108 Russian medium-haul MC-21 aircraft by 2030, and plans to increase the fleet to 200 by 2033.

Aeroflot is Russia's largest aviation group that unites the airline of the same name and Pobeda and Rossiya airlines. The government controls 73.8% of the company's shares, 1.2% are quasi-treasury securities, management owns 0.0001%, and 25% are in free float.