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May 5, 2015 (newstodate): Many Russian airports have established incentive schemes to attract foreign cargo airlines - but to no avail.
Despite such efforts over the recent six months, St Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport has not seen a single new entrant, and Tolmachevo Airport has succeeded in landing only one new western airline customer, Cargolux Italia for technical landings.
At the same time, cargo volumes on Russian carriers are growing, increasing 3.5 percent, y-o-y, driven by a growth in cargo on international traffic in 2014 by 7.5 percent.
It seems, therefore, that airport incentives will not lure more traffic by western cargo carriers, but the Russian carriers are instead benefiting from a weak Ruble strengthening their competitive power against western carriers, notably in the transit segment between China and the West as well as in Russia's airfreight import sector.
Despite such efforts over the recent six months, St Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport has not seen a single new entrant, and Tolmachevo Airport has succeeded in landing only one new western airline customer, Cargolux Italia for technical landings.
At the same time, cargo volumes on Russian carriers are growing, increasing 3.5 percent, y-o-y, driven by a growth in cargo on international traffic in 2014 by 7.5 percent.
It seems, therefore, that airport incentives will not lure more traffic by western cargo carriers, but the Russian carriers are instead benefiting from a weak Ruble strengthening their competitive power against western carriers, notably in the transit segment between China and the West as well as in Russia's airfreight import sector.