Interesting facts unearthed. In the USA – ~10 million flights per year, transporting 1 billion passengers to/from 13,000 airports, of which about 4,700 are public, the rest are private. In Russia, about 800,000 flights, ~120 million passengers per year, of which about 70% are domestic, and 30% are international. Link about the 800,000 flights in Russia – in the comments from Sergey Sitnikov.
Thus, the USA exceeds Russia by 8.5 times in passenger flow, and by 86 times in the number of airports.
I rewrote the post, originally it was in the form of a WTF question because the numbers from different sources showed exactly the opposite. Thanks for the comments.
Presumably, this could somehow be considered in discussions on the speed of COVID spread in the USA and Russia.
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