OREANDA-NEWS. UTair Aviation shifted flight operations to its Spring-Summer flight schedule.

UTair will operate about 350 regular and charter flights daily to destinations in 18 countries around the world. T he international flight component of the schedule has an expanded number of destinations within the CIS . New flights have been scheduled from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Yerevan , from Surgut to Osh, Bishkek, and Almaty. The UTair route network within the CIS includes a total of 19 destinations in nine countries of the near abroad.

The Spring-Summer flight schedule also includes new international routes from Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow to Heviz and from Tyumen to Dresden. The number of flights from Rostov-on-Don to Frankfurt am Main has been expanded to include up to two flights per week.

The UTair fleet renewal program for 2014 encompasses the expected delivery of 22 new aircraft, including Airbus A321, Boeing 737 NG, and SSJ-100 aircraft that will enable UTair to expand the number of routes and increase the frequency of flights to the most popular destinations. Plans have been laid for increasing the number of flights from Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow to St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Mineralnye Vody, Voronezh, Ulyanovsk, and Kazan. UTair has also resumed flights from Moscow to Irkutsk and Barnaul.

Flights from St. Petersburg will be expanded to include such destinations as Anapa, Nizhnevartovsk, Novy Urengoy, Sochi, Simferopol and Tyumen.

Traditionally UTair kicks off the summer season by resuming direct flights to popular holiday destinations on the Black Sea coast. UTair will resume seasonal flights to Anapa from Moscow, Kursk, Nizhnevartovsk, Noyabrsk, Surgut, Syktyvkar, Tyumen and Khanty-Mansiysk and flights to Gelendzhik from Moscow and Surgut. Direct flights to Sochi will be available from Kursk, Nizhnevartovsk, St. Petersburg, Surgut, Tambov, Tyumen, and Syktyvkar. Direct flights to Krasnodar will be available from Nizhnevartovsk Noyabrsk, Tyumen, Surgut and Syktyvkar.

The UTair Group will introduce flight operations with all new Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft this year in June and UTair Group subsidiary UTair -Express will launch operations with this new type of aircraft on flights from Ufa to Moscow, Surgut, Sochi, Krasnodar, Anapa, Nizhnevartovsk, Novy Urengoy, and Noyabrsk. Flights on the SSJ-100 will also be available on routes from Moscow to Nizhnekamsk, Belgorod, Nyagan, Kogalym, Sovetsky and on international flights from Moscow to Minsk.

UTair Aviation ranks among the top three Russian airlines. In 2013 UTair Aviation aircraft transported 9,625,295 passengers and the combined UTair Group fleet transported 10,413,803 passengers. UTair Aviation operates more than 150 fixed wing aircraft and performs flights to 110 destinations in Russia and abroad. The airline maintains its central hub at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, from which it performs more than 100 flights daily.