~20% increase in domestic flights in 2016 YoY
~10% decrease in international flights, mostly due to Turkey/Egypt ban
O.T. of course.
You don't live there.
The changes in useage are quite simply a reflection of the fallen Rouble rate, and the bankrupcy of large numbers of the tour operators.
Domestic flights are cheap, but we knew that with subsidies and a/p taxes paid in Rouble.
International flights are expensive, with higher a/p taxes payable in foreign, so it doesn't take a maths degree to work out the stunning downturn.
The "average" Russian consumer no longer can afford that holiday in the sun, so AFL mainly being government owned, heavily promoted subsidised tourism to Krym, which has an absolute collapse of its tourist industry, and a staggering 100% price rise on the peninsula.
It's now yet another miserable failed semi-region with lower standard of living even than impoverished Pskov or Novgorod, which are well recognisable black holes.
Crimea had around 6 million visitors a year before the 2014 annexation
,now, 2016, under half that, with the primary industry being tourism.
There's statistics, lies, damn lies and manipulations.
