A total of 2.4 million passengers travelled on the group's flights during the first month of the year, down 42.7% down year-on-year. The majority of people were travelling on domestic flights - 2.1 million. The group’s passenger load factor was 77.2%, a 2.1 percentage point increase versus the same month last year. Pobeda Airlines carried 928 thousand passengers, a slight increase year-on-year.
Aeroflot's operating results of January 2021 were affected by the dynamics of demand and significant flight restrictions imposed amid the spread of the novel coronavirus infection.
In January 2021 Aeroflot Group continued to restore its domestic traffic volumes and partially restore international flights. In addition to flights to Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Maldives, Egypt, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Korea, Japan and Serbia, based on regulatory approval flights to Helsinki (Finland) were added with limited frequency. In February flights to Baku (Azerbaijan), Yerevan (Armenia) and Delhi (India) have also recommenced, and the frequency of flights to a number of destinations was increased. However, in general, International traffic remained significantly limited.