St Petersburg and Minsk Route
We analysed the direct routes between St Petersburg and Minsk. We emphasized and used the following points which are cities, airports, direct flights, route capacity and route traffic.
1) CITIES
Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth’ land areas with 143,440,000 people within the boundaries of in 2016. St Petersburg is Russia’s second-largest city after Moscow and it had 4,848,742 population in this year. On the other hand, Belarus is a country in Eastern Europe and in 2016 it had 9.507.000 population.
When we look at Russia’s surface, St Petersburg has less area in contrast to Minsk city which is the capital and largest city of Belarus. The percentage of Russian population living in St Petersburg is %3,40. This means that it’s geography and of course the area size can be effective reasons this kind of percentage. Population of Minsk in 2016 was 1,959,800 million and when we compare the ratio, the percentage of Belarusian population living in Minsk is 21%. This city is the economic capital of Belarus. It has developed industrial and services sectors which serve the needs of the entire nation. Therefore, it’s contributions form nearly 46% of Belarusian budget.
ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
MINSK, BELARUS
2) AIRPORTS
St Petersburg has only one airport which is also one of the largest airports in Russia is ‘’ Pulkovo Airport’’, in addition Minsk which is the capital of Belarus has one airport is called ‘’ Minsk National Airport’’.
Pulkovo Airport
Pulkovo Airport (IATA: LED, ICAO: ULLI) is an international airport serving Saint Petersburg, Russia. It consists of one terminal which is located 23 km south of the city centre.
Minsk National Airport
It is the main international airport in Belarus, located 42 km (26 mi) to the east of the capital Minsk and the codes are for IATA: MSQ and ICAO: UMMS.
Here are the passenger per capita for each airport / city.
FOR MINSK NATIONAL AIRPORT :
In 2016 the airport serviced a total of 3,429,112 passengers
Total population in Minsk is 9,481,521.
Passenger per capita : 3,429,112/ 9,481,521
: 0.36
FOR PULKOVO AIRPORT :
Total number of passenger is 13.300.000 and
Total populatıon in St. Petersburg is 4,848,742
Total Air Pax Per Capita : 4,848,742 / 13.300.000
: 2.74
As you can see above, St Petersburg and Minks are small cities and both of them have only one airport but when we compare two, St Petersburg has the bigger passenger per capita due to the fact that it’s population is higher. Moreover, it receives more international passenger than Minks. That may be the reason why St Petersburg has bigger passenger per capita so it is normal for this difference.
3) DIRECT FLIGHTS
There is only two airlines flying the direct route St Petersbug- Minsk which are Belavia and S7 Airlines. When we look at the Scanner Web page, Belavia Airline has a flight at 8:05 pm from LED to MSQ everyday. S7 Airline has a flight at 5:35 am from LED to MSQ everyday and direct flights take around 1 hours 25 minutes.
The airports connected between St Petersburg and Minks are Sheremetova(SVO), Domodedova(DME), Vnukova(VKO) Airport. It takes four and a half hours approximately.
4) ROUTE CAPACITY
The flight distance from Minsk-Belarus to Saint Petersburg-Russia is 687 km (427 miles) whereas the normal distance (by road & sea) is 773 km. There are 2 airlines serving direct flights between these distances which are S7 and Belavia Airline. Both of them serves in everyday of the week.
Belavia Airline uses Boeing 737-500 aircraft for this route which has 108 seating capacity.
S7 Airline uses Embraer 175 aircraft for this route which has 78 seating capacity.
5) ROUTE TRAFFIC
Load Factor(LF) can be calculated with the formula; Revenue Passenger Kilometer (RPK)/ Available Seat Kilometer (ASK).S7 Airlines announced (24-May-2017) plans to increase passenger numbers by 13.4% year-on-year in 2017. As previously reported by CAPA, the carrier handled 13.1 million in 2016, up 23.7% year-on-year. Load factor is expected to increase from 85.4% in 2016 to 86.8% in 2017.
AUTHORS:
Eda Yılmaz
Yağmur Yılmaz
Handenur Karahüseyin
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Denizhan Duran
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