OREANDA-NEWS. On 24 March 2009 was announced, that JSC UTair Aviation carried 356 430 passengers in January-February of the current year.

 In January-February, 2009 the transporting aviation carried 1088 tons of cargo and 184,6 tons of mail.

 The productive asset on the planes of the air company made 16561flight hours.

 The helicopters of UTair logged 7640 flight hours.

 In January-February of the current year the helicopters of UTair transported 2 761 tons of cargo.

 According to the business plan of UTair, the plains and helicopters will log 257,8 thousand flight hours in 2009. The passenger flights will carry 3,7 million passengers. Helicopter operations will be performed in Russia and 10 foreign countries. Meanwhile, the export of helicopter services will be increased by 23, 2 %.

 155 plains and 201 helicopters of different types and classes are to be used for the performance of the productive programme.