Begishevo International Airport, a subsidiary of KAMAZ, summed up results of activity for the first half-year of the current year.
For the first six months of the current year, the passenger flow of Begishevo Airport reached 250,612 passengers, which is 2% higher than for the same period last year. The top three by number of flights are Pobeda, Aeroflot and Rossiya airlines which performed flights to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sochi for the stated period.
The inland air traffic is still growing. The highest demand for flights to Sochi is due to the start of a holiday period, and also due to temporarily stopped flights to other southern airports. For the first half-year, 8,942 passengers departed from Begishevo for Sochi.
International flights from January to June of the current year numbered 5,067 passengers. For the above mentioned period, Begishevo operated flights to Istanbul, Dushanbe, and Khujand.
As of the end of the first half-year, the route network of the airport was expanded thanks to Red Wing flights to Novy Urengoy. The new international flight of 2022 is a route to Istanbul, also performed by Red Wings. The number of flights to Moscow has increased due to flights operated by NordStar and Ural Airlines. Besides, there is an additional NordStar flight to Saint Petersburg.
Begishevo Airport plans to raise the passenger flow to 600,000 transported passengers by the end of 2022. The 1H results have set a good pace to attain the desired goal.