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with sales increasing 6.2% to 27,600 cars. In January–July, the used car market fell by 0.4% on the year to 3mn vehicles.
9.1.3 Aviation sector news
Russian air transport companies jointly carried 14.13mn passengers in July 2019, exceeding the figure for the same period last year by 9.9%, preliminary figures released by the country’s aviation authority Rosaviatsiya reveal, according to Kommersant. Passenger turnover reached 34.55bn RPKs, a 11.2% improvement year-on-year. Three Aeroflot Group airlines, the biggest in Russia, demonstrated very different dynamics in the month. Market leader Aeroflot carried more than 3.7mn passengers, just two% up on the same period of last year and Rossiya Airlines served 1.52mn passengers, representing only a 1.2% improvement. It was low-cost carrier (LCC) Pobeda that contributed most in terms of productivity, with 51.4% more passengers carried, reaching a total of onemn. S7 Airlines, Russia’s largest private airline, has continued its solid growth this year with 1.5mn passengers transported in July, up 17.2% over last year’s period. Another privately run carrier, the Yekaterinburg-based Ural Airlines, also served more than onemn passengers In July 2019, enjoying a 6.5% year-on-year improvement, and claiming fourth place in the rankings of Russian airlines, ahead of Pobeda, country’s only LCC. In the first seven months of this year, the total number of passengers carried by Russia’s airlines is estimated at 71.8mn passengers, an increase of
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