OREANDA-NEWS. On April 05, 2007 UTair (UTair Aviation, JSC) has switched to its spring-summer 2007 schedule; which means an expanded route network and an increase in the frequency of flights to numerous destinations. New flights from Moscow to Novy Urengoi and Nikolayev, Ukraine, will soon be available. The frequency of flights from Moscow to Donetsk, Kazan and Nizhnevartovsk will be increased to two per day, service from the Russian capital to Petrozavodsk will resume, and flights to Minsk and Astrakhan will be launched, reported the press-centre of  UTair.

As part of its spring-summer schedule, UTair is already carrying out flights to Dushanbe from Tyumen and Magnitogorsk. Baltic destinations (Tallinn, Vilnius, Riga) will be made available with service from Moscow on ATR-42 planes. The summer charter flight schedule will allow residents of Omsk, Kazan, Ufa, and Rostov-on-Don to fly UTair to Antalya, Turkey. The airline’s flights from Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport will provide service to Thessaloniki (Greece), locations in Italy, and Pardubice (Czech Republic). Residents of the Tyumen region will be able to fly to Antalya from Tyumen (4 times a week) and Surgut (once a week).


In the new season, the pace of passenger transportation growth will keep in line with expectations. According to the business plan, the airline plans to transport around 3,5m passengers in 2007. In 2006, UTair provided its services to 2,5m passengers, having performed 60,000 flights (160 flights per day). To meet its operating targets, UTair Aviation plans to use 93 aircraft of all the existing classes.