OREANDA-NEWS. On 15 February 2008 was announced, that UTair Aviation (UTair Aviation JSC) transported 205,398 passengers in January 2008, which is 22.7 percent greater than in the same month a year earlier. In addition, the company also made substantial advances in other performance indicators over the reporting period. In particular, passenger traffic went up 23.9 percent. The amount of mail carried by the airline's transport aircarft increased 34.6 percent in January 2008. UTair’s airplanes logged 11,105 flight hours, a 31.1-percent rise from the previous year. Helicopter flying time amounted to 3,875 hours, which is 33.1 percent greater than in January 2007. The volume of cargo carried by helicopters increased by a factor of 2.5. According to UTair’s business plan, its airplanes and helicopters will spend over 240,000 hours in the air in 2008. Some four million passengers are projected to be carried and nineteen new routes introduced. Helicopter operations will be administered in Russia and eleven other countries.