According to statistics, the average cost of an economy class flight per 1 thousand km of travel last month last summer was 7,912.64 rubles. This price is a record for the entire history of statistics.
Since the beginning of 2024, flight prices in Russia have increased by 28.4%, which is a record increase since 2002. MoscowTimes wrote this on Tuesday, September 17.
According to statistics, the average cost of an economy class flight per 1 thousand km of travel last month last summer was 7,912.64 rubles. This price is a record for the entire history of statistics. Before this, a sharp increase in prices for air travel was observed at the beginning of the year, when prices increased by 34-42% in annual terms.
As reported by the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Roman Starovoyt, citing data from the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation, air tickets over the past six months have increased in price by 20%, and the average ticket price is 9,150 rubles.
“There are several factors here. It is an increase in passenger traffic, that is, competition is increasing. It is the airline’s costs to support airworthiness. Even if it can be, the airlines’ costs for these types of work have increased Also, in general, an increase in the cost of both fuel and land services, which we have now recorded,” said the Russian minister.
According to him, Russians need to buy a ticket in advance, where the price is lower.
In turn, Rosaviatsia believes that the annual passenger traffic in 2024 will decrease to 98 million people in 2023, 105 million passengers used air travel.
Earlier it became known that a production site for the manufacture of analogues of Western parts for Airbus and Boeing aircraft will open in Russia.
We remind you that a sports plane crashed in Russian Tatarstan. Three died, he said Interfax on Wednesday, July 10th.
In June, an An-26 plane broke in half after a hard landing in Russia. The incident occurred on the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic near the runway.
And in April, a military plane crashed in Russia’s Stavropol region. No damage or casualties, the pilots ejected.
Source: korrespondent
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