OREANDA-NEWS. UTair (UTair Aviation, JSC) carried 730,165 passengers in January-April 2007, which is 22,7 percent more than in the first four months of the previous year, reported the press-centre of  UTair. A considerable increase was also seen in the airline’s other performance indicators over the reporting period. In particular, the company’s passenger traffic rose 28,9 percent. In January-April 2007, the volume of mail carried by transport aircraft surged 61,6 percent, the volume of transported cargo grew 50,5 percent.


UTair’s airplanes logged 34,183 flight hours, up 20,5 percent from a year ago. The company’s helicopters logged 13,920 flight hours, which is 6,6 percent more than in the same period in 2006. According to UTair’s business plan, the company’s airplanes and helicopters will spend more than 200,000 hours in the air in 2007. Over 3m passengers will be transported and around 30 new routes introduced. Helicopter operations will be conducted in ten foreign countries as well as Russia, with the volume of helicopter service exports increasing by more than 26 percent.