Since the start of 2015, Irkutsk Airport has served one million passengers, and the millionth was chemist Irina Muratova on August 10, flying for the first time in her life. She received gifts and a year of business lounge service, and Aeroflot upgraded her to business class. The airport says the millionth passenger was registered at almost the same time as a year earlier, despite economic difficulties, and July traffic rose 9 percent.
Since the beginning of 2015, one million passengers have been served at Irkutsk Airport. Today, August 10, the millionth passenger was registered. She was Irina Muratova, a chemist who works at Irkutsk Oil Company. She was presented with an award ribbon, a bouquet of flowers, and a certificate for free service in the airport business lounge for one year. This was reported by the airport press service.Irina Muratova was flying on an Aeroflot – Russian Airlines flight to Moscow, and from there on vacation to Sochi. As the millionth passenger, the airline upgraded Irina’s class of service: to Moscow she traveled not in economy, but in business class.
"Today I am flying on a plane for the first time in my life, and becoming the millionth passenger of Irkutsk Airport is an extraordinary surprise. I consider myself not a very lucky person, but today I was very lucky. A good start to the vacation," Irina said.
The special passenger was congratulated by the first deputy general director of Irkutsk Airport, Oleg Georgievich Pastukhov, and the head of the Aeroflot airline representative office, Anatoly Alekseevich Agafonov.
"The millionth passenger was registered exactly at the same time as last year, despite the economic difficulties our country is experiencing. Meeting the millionth passenger at the same time speaks to the stability of the enterprise. This summer, passenger traffic at Irkutsk Airport exceeded the figures for the same period in 2014; in July alone, it grew by 9%," Oleg Georgievich Pastukhov noted.