OREANDA-NEWS. On 02 July 2008 was announced, that UTair (UTair Aviation, JSC) commenced daily flights from Moscow (Vnukovo) to Volgograd and back. The new route has been launched after multiple requests from the airline's passengers.

UTair planes undertake dozens of flights every day, connecting the cities of the Volga Federal District with Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as other cities in Russia and abroad. Importantly, thanks to a convenient schedule and well thought-out connecting flights, the airline's passengers will be able to cut back on the time it takes them to reach their destinations as they travel from Astrakhan, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, and Cheboksary to cities in Siberia, such as Irkutsk, Tyumen, Surgut, Khanty-Mansiysk, Nizhnevartovsk, Novy Urengoy, and Noyabrsk.

Certain advantages have been retained for UTair customers on the new Moscow-Volgograd route, such as the opportunity to make savings on roundtrips and special fares for passengers on connecting flights via Moscow (with the possibility of a 5-day layover in the Russian capital).

The STATUS frequent-flyer program awards participants with free tickets in exchange for points which they have accrued on each flight and a number of other bonus features.

Two classes of seating will be provided on Volgograd-Moscow flights: business and economy. Tickets can be booked at the airline's box offices and on the www.utair.ru website. Tickets are available through the entire UTair agency network.

Flights are scheduled to depart from Moscow at 12:20 p.m. and from Volgograd at 3:10 p.m.

UTair’s planes carry out more than 1,500 passenger flights a week. Over 200 plane and helicopter flights are performed daily, making UTair Russia’s leading airline company in this respect. UTair expects growth in passenger numbers to continue, and anticipates to carry 4 million people in 2008, up 34 percent from last year. In addition, twenty new flight routes will be launched.