Airline ticket prices in Russia reached a 16-year record | Business

The average price of flights in February this year has already exceeded 2022. the price during the peak of the aviation season, when it rose to 6,621 rubles (66 euros) per 1,000 kilometers.

The price of air tickets for the winter season has approached summer numbers, when flights become more expensive due to increased demand. For example, in July last year, the average price was 7638.95 rubles (76 euros) per 1000 kilometers.

Average flight prices rose by 12.7 percent during the month (February compared to January). That’s the sharpest jump in February since at least 2008. For comparison: 2023 in February, compared to January of the same year, plane tickets rose in price by 6.2 percent, in 2022 – 2.5 percent, in 2021 – 7.6 percent

Rosstat’s data is close to our data on the price of round-trip flights. In January, compared to January of last year, the price of a round-trip flight increased by 32% to 11.6 thousand rubles (115.5 euros), in February – by 42% . up to 12.77 thousand rubles (127 euros),” Yandex Travel confirmed to the Moscow Times.

According to the service, the most expensive flights to Barnaul, Grozny, Blagoveshchensk, Murmansk and Ulan-Ude (by 88, 84, 77, 77, 76 and 71 percent, respectively).

“The price of a flight in each direction is affected by many factors, from changes in the schedule of carriers to certain local events that can provoke increased demand at that time,” noted Yandex Travel.

Each airline has its own dynamics of price growth, but “in general, yes, prices have increased slightly in the first two months of this year”, confirmed the representative of Smartavia.

Prices are influenced by the size of state subsidies, changes in the route network, the airline’s aircraft fleet and their occupancy during a certain period of the year, the carrier explained. Prices are also affected by the increasing costs of airlines: airport costs, the price of fuel and lubricants, the actual growth of the currency component, etc.

Air travel became even more expensive in March: tickets are now sold at 50% off. more expensive than last year, according to Yandex Travel. Smartavia confirmed that “prices did indeed increase slightly” in March.