OREANDA-NEWS. During January-March 2007, UTair (UTair Aviation, JSC) increased its number of passengers carried to 527,228 people, or 25.1 percent more than in the same period of the previous year. Furthermore, the company also reported a substantial improvement in other performance indicators. In particular, passenger traffic rose 34.7 percent.

The volume of mail and cargo carried by transport aircraft went up by 66.1 percent and 64.1 percent respectively over the period in question from a year earlier.

UTair’s airplanes logged 25,310 flight hours, up 21.5 percent from the previous year.

The company’s helicopters spent 8,948 flight hours in the air.