The passenger traffic of international Airport Rostov-on-Don (it is a part of corporate “Airports of Regions”) is increase on 6.9% at year 2014 and amounted 2 342 302 people. There were 1 474 456 passengers on domestic destination and this is 15,8% more than 2013 year. On international flights the traffic consisted from 870546 passengers (-5.4%). the number of mission rate increases of 1.5% till 26/224 operations. The number of cargo and mail is 6.475 tones on the level 2013 year.
There were 45 domestic and international air companies who made the flights by 78 regular routes from Airport Rostov-on-Don during 2014 year. More than 50% collectively of passengers traffic were made by “Donavia”, “UTair”, “S7 Airlines”.
The top-10 most popular routes from Airport last year look like: Moscow, Antalya, St.Petersburg, Yerevan, Istanbul, Simferopol, Sharm el-Sheikh, Hurgada, Prague and Tashkent- the share of this routes more than 80% of passengers traffic of the Airport. Along with that the significant development were demonstrated by the routes such cities like Thessaloniki (+33.1%), Nizni Novgorod ( increase of 2.9 times), Volgograd (+75,2%), Sugrut (+75,9%), Dushanbe (increase of 1.1 times), Krasnodar (increase of 3 times), Miniralnye Vody (increase of 5.3 times), Astrachan (in 1.4 times).
Make a point that new route had been opened to Simferopol in 2014 year brought to Airport Rostov –on-Don more than 70.000 passengers, which measured with passenger traffic for such routes like Istanbul and Sharm el-Sheikh and even exceeded the passenger traffic to Hurgada in 2014 year.
The development aims by destination routes and build up frequency on the most popular routes will in priority for the Airport in 2015 year. More than that there will be taking steps for increase the transfer transportation.