The Aeroflot Group carried 16.4 million passengers between June and August, matching its traffic levels from the summer of 2025.
The total figure includes flights operated by the Russian flag carrier alongside its subsidiary airlines, Rossiya and Pobeda. Of the total summer traffic, Aeroflot accounted for 8.6 million passengers on its own flights during the three-month period.
Aeroflot is Russia's largest airline and state-owned flag carrier, operating out of its primary hub in Moscow. Its subsidiary Rossiya operates a broad network of domestic and international flights, while Pobeda functions as the group's low-cost carrier.
Busiest cities and domestic routes
Moscow was the most popular city in the network, handling more than 9 million passengers over the summer. St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, followed with more than 2.2 million travelers.
Sochi, a major resort destination on the Black Sea coast, recorded 973,300 passengers. Kaliningrad, the capital of the Russian exclave located between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea, handled 676,100.
The Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk recorded 592,700 passengers, narrowly ahead of the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg with 592,300. Vladivostok, a major Pacific port city in Russia's Far East, saw 492,900 travelers.
Rounding out the 10 most popular cities were the southern city of Krasnodar with 404,700 passengers, the Tatarstan capital of Kazan with 392,500, and Mineralnye Vody, a gateway to the North Caucasus spa region, with 390,000.
The airline group's busiest domestic route was between Moscow and St. Petersburg. The remainder of the top five domestic routes also originated and ended in the Russian capital, connecting Moscow with Kaliningrad, Sochi, Vladivostok, and the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk.
Top international destinations
Turkey was among the top five international destinations for the airline group, driven by flights connecting Moscow with the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya and the commercial hub of Istanbul.
The other leading international destinations were Armenia, with flights between Moscow and the capital Yerevan; Belarus, linking Moscow and Minsk; and Vietnam, with a route between Moscow and the coastal resort city of Nha Trang.
The passenger figures included flights operated by the Russian charter airline iFly under a wet lease agreement. A wet lease is an aviation industry arrangement where one airline provides aircraft, complete crew, maintenance, and insurance to another company.
Across the whole of 2025, Aeroflot carried 29.5 million passengers on its own flights. The wider Aeroflot Group, which includes its subsidiaries, carried a total of 55.3 million passengers over the course of the year.
