Ural Airlines warned of a two -time reduction in air transportation at the end of the year

According to the results of 2020, the number of passengers transported by Russian airlines will not exceed 70 million people, the general director and co -owner of the Ural Airlines Sergey Skuratov said in an interview with RBC.

“At least half fall. In 2019, 128 million passengers were transported, in 2020 there will be about 60-70 million, ”he said.

According to the results of 2019, the company transported 9.6 million people. Now, due to an epidemic of coronavirus and restrictive measures, the company will have a fall by 55%, that is, up to 4.3 million passengers.

Since March 27, the Russian government decided to stop all regular and charter air traffic to other countries and vice versa. The exception was made only for flights that take Russians from abroad. In April 2020, Russian airlines transported only 771.2 thousand passengers, which is 91.8% less than last year.