OREANDA-NEWS. Ural Airlines has carried its three millionth passenger this year. The lucky person checked in for the earliest 6:50am flight U6-264 Ekaterinburg-Moscow on 12 September. It has become a good tradition for the airline to celebrate milestone passengers since their number is growing year by year.

Ural Airlines has been systematically increasing its passenger traffic which has grown by 26% YOY within the eight months. In 2012, the three millionth passenger checked in in November; this year, 2 months earlier. The air carrier has scheduled a new achievement - to carry more than four million passenger by the end of 2013.