Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg looked into its achievements in January 2009. As it happens, the company has serviced 15.9% fewer passengers this January compared to January 2008, that is, 134,035 people altogether, of whom 42,314 people traveled internationally, 80,353 passengers used various domestic flights, and 11,368 people bought tickets for flights operated within the CIS. This was, respectively, 7.2%, 19.4%, and 16.3% less than a year earlier.


In addition to rendering its services to passengers, the airport handled 665.86 tons of cargo and mail in January 2009 (which was 24.4% less than in January 2008). The amount of cargo and mail shipped within Russia came to 496.04 tons (which was 21.5% less than a year earlier), the amount of cargo and mail shipped internationally reached 150,90 tons (which was 33.9% less than a year earlier), and the amount of cargo and mail shipped to or from the CIS reached 18.92 tons (which was 9% less than a year earlier).


‘The main reason for this decrease in output was the lower demand, the people’s decreased paying capacity, the current downfall in the business activity and the companies’ cutting back on air travel as well as the plummeting popularity of domestic and international tourist trips,’ the spokesperson for the airport says.


All in all, the airport handled 1,025 sorties in the first month of 2009, which fell short of the figures for January 2008 by 19.9%, including 731 domestic flights, 227 international flights, and 67 flights within the CIS. This was, respectively, 25.3%, .9%, and 6.9% less than a year earlier.


Koltsovo Airport’s flight regularity came to 79.3% of all serviced flights, which totals to 212 delayed flights altogether.