Aeroflot says it is yet to carry 230,000 passengers of Transaero until December 15

MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/. Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot should not get all the international routes of Transaero airline, Igor Artemyev, head of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) told reporters.

"I can say for sure that Aeroflot must not get everything. Definitely, it won’t get everything. We will not allow it to do this, because we want competition to continue on the market," he said.

Artemyev said that Aeroflot had suffered heavy losses because it acted as the major donor and prevented a social explosion.

"In this situation we should compensate its losses. It (Aeroflot — TASS) will get a number of routes of Transaero. Other companies will also receive some. That is how it should be," the head of FAS said.