Ural Airlines set up a new record in passenger turnover

10.08.2011 — News

SVERDLOVSK REGION.

Ural Airlines have achieved their record high level of more than 1 million passengers serviced by the company over seven months within one year. In January-July the air-carrier provided services to 1,322,687 passengers.

The representatives of the Ural Airlines' Press Service informed "RusBusinessNews" that the performance of the respective period of the last year was exceeded by 35%.

Within seven months of 2011, the airline's aircraft made 11,828 flights, including 3,676 international flights. The highest demand is for flights from Ekaterinburg to Beijing, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Burgas, Barcelona, and Rome. This summer Ural Airlines offered flights from Ufa and Samara to Larnaca as well as from Samara to Barcelona, Varna and Thessaloniki.

The air company was able to increase its passenger flow, having added four A320s to its fleet. Today, Ural Airlines are operating eighteen А320 and А321 aircraft.

In August the company is launching new flights from Ekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk and Vladivostok to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Besides, Ural Airlines resume their flights to Georgia from Moscow and Ekaterinburg.