OREANDA-NEWS. UTair Aviation shifted operations to its 2013 Spring-Summer flight schedule. This summer UTair will operate flights to 17 countries around the world, including eight flights to CIS destinations. UTair will offer service to a total of 97 destinations, 64 on domestic routes and 33 international.

The schedule includes new international routes from Saint Petersburg to Budapest twice a week and weekly flights from Ulyanovsk to Munich and from Rostov-on-Don to Frankfurt on Main. Flights will be operated with Boeing 737-500 aircraft.

In order to guarantee convenient connections the UTair route network development program has expanded operations with more flights to the most popular destinations. Starting in May 2013, UTair will offer a third daily flight between Moscow and Saint Petersburg and between Moscow and Perm.

In addition to evening flights, new flights with departures in the afternoon will be operated from Moscow to Nizhnevartovsk and Tambov. New daily flights have been scheduled for the Moscow-Hannover and Moscow-Gelendzhik routes instead of the previous schedules for three times a week.

UTair will continue its summer season tradition of flights to leisure destinations, including daily flights from Moscow to Simferopol and twice daily from Moscow to Anapa.

UTair's flight schedule from Surgut will see significant expansion in the new Spring and Summer Schedule. Flight frequency from Surgut to Krasnodar will increase to 6 times a week, and new daily flights will be launched from Surgut to Baku, Lenkoran, Donetsk, Simpheropol, Lvov, Kishinev and Rostov-on-Don. In addition, flights from the Surgut to Anapa will be operated three times a week, to Belgorod – on Sundays, to Sochi – twice a week, to Tomsk and Barnaul – twice a week as well.

Starting in June, UTair will offer flights from Surgut to Kiev via Borispol International Airport as well as to Donetsk and Lvov. Flights will be operated with comfortable Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Residents of Tyumen and the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District will also have direct flight access to popular leisure destinations aboard Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737-500 aircraft. UTair will offer daily flights from Noviy Urengoy to Anapa, daily flights from Tyumen to Anapa, Mineralye Vody and Ufa aboard ATR aircraft and flights twice a week from Tyumen to Sochi. The Summer Schedule includes flights from Nizhnevartovsk to Krasnodar and Anapa three times a week and twice a week from these cities to Sochi. From Noyabrsk, daily flights to Anapa, Sochi and Krasnodar will be offered and weekly flights from Khanty-Mansiysk to Anapa and Sochi.

The 2013 Spring and Summer Schedule will also offer residents of Saint Petersburg the opportunity to fly daily from Pulkovo Airport to Sochi and Syktyvkar and twice a week to Tomsk aboard Boeing 737-500 aircraft.

UTair Aviation ranks among the top three Russian airlines. In 2012 UTair aircraft transported 8,582,681 passengers. The airline operates more than 200 fixed wing aircraft and performs flights to 110 destinations in Russia and aboard. The airline maintains its central hub at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, from which it performs 100 flights daily.