In January-June, Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) increased passenger transportation by long-distance trains by 23% year-on-year to 13.5 million, the company’s press service reported.
According to the company’s telegram channel on Thursday, UZ carried 2.4 million more passengers during the reporting period than last year.
In the international direction, 1.1 million passengers were transported against 890 thousand in January-June last year.
It is emphasized that, in addition to quantitative indicators, the railroad focused on qualitative ones.
In the first half of the year, the overall on-time performance of domestic trains was 92%. Ukrainian railroaders managed to keep this figure despite enemy shelling of infrastructure, power outages that required a prompt switch to diesel traction, as well as during an active period of infrastructure repairs and “repair windows,” UZ said, noting that international traffic pulls down the on-time performance.
“Checks at border crossings often delay flights, and Ukrainian trains wait for international connecting flights to be late so as not to leave our passengers to fend for themselves,” the company explained.
Passenger satisfaction with the level of service and the work of train crews in the first half of the year was 67%, which is 4% higher than in the same period last year. In high-speed trains, this figure is 79%. The rate of satisfaction with the trip among female passengers in women’s compartments is consistently the highest – 88%, the report says.
