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Ukrainian air carriers increased passenger transportation by 40% in January-June 2017 (H1) year-over-year (y-o-y), to 4.6 million people, according to the State Statistics Service.
Passenger turnover for the period under review soared by 45.8%, to 8.9 million passengers/km, the report said.
Air freight for the first five months of 2017 fell by 8.9%, to 4,000 tonnes, while cargo turnover decreased by 2.4%, to 113.3 million tonnes/km compared to January-June 2016.
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As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukrainian air carriers increased passenger transportation by 42.5% in January-May 2017 y-o-y, to 3.5 million people.
In 2016, the country's air carriers rose passenger transportation by 31.3%, to 8.3 million people, while air fright by 7.4%, to 70,000 tonnes.