OREANDA-NEWS. July 23, 2007. UTair (UTair Aviation, CJSC) carried 1,254,415 passengers from January through June 2007, 21 percent more than in the same period in 2006.

In addition, the company also made a substantial advance in other performance indicators in the reporting period. In particular, passenger traffic rose 26.5 percent.

The volume of mail and cargo carried by the airline’s transport aircraft increased by 53.1 percent and 33.5 percent respectively in the first half of 2007.
UTair’s airplanes logged 57,249 flight hours, up 19.9 percent from the previous year, whilehelicopter flying time amounted to 27,879 hours, or 10.3 percent more than in the same period in 2006.

The volume of cargo carried by helicopters increased 39.1 percent to 26,211 tonnes over the period in question.

According to UTair’s business plan, its airplanes and helicopters will spend over 200,000 hours in the air in 2007,and the company anticipates to carry more than 3m passengers , as well as introduce some thirty new routes. Helicopter operations will be held in Russia and ten more countries, with helicopter service exports increasing by more than 26 percent.