He said that ICAO had provided the Ministry of Transport with a consolidated report showing how air travel could potentially be restored.

“There are two possible scenarios: a V-shaped recovery, which shows that now air transport has almost stopped,” RIA Novosti quoted Dietrich as saying.

He said that in this format, by the end of the year Russia will already be able to restore the monthly volume of traffic compared to last year, but, as the minister notes, “in general, due to the decline in the middle of the year, the industry will potentially lose half the passenger traffic, which was scheduled for this year. "

“If we transported 128 million passengers last year, then in the V-shaped mode - about 60 million passengers per year,” he explained.

According to him, this is an “optimistic forecast”.

“The forecast, which we call the base forecast, is U-shaped. That is, we will lie down for some time and, accordingly, if we start intensive flights not in July, but in the fall, then we will potentially transport a quarter of the volume of passenger traffic that was last year, and we will finally recover the industry only by September next year. ” - added Dietrich.

Earlier, Dietrich expressed hope for the opening of international flights in the summer.

The head of the Internet portal Avia.ru Roman Gusarov in an interview with Nation News gave a forecast for the restoration of air traffic.