OREANDA-NEWS. On 06 May 2009 was announced, that in January-March, 2009 the transporting aviation carried 1815 tons of cargo and 284,6 tons of mail.

The productive asset on the planes of the air company made 26232flight hours.

UTair’s helicopter flying time amounted to 11,687 flight hours, up 10.2 percent from the previous year.s.

In January-March of the current year the helicopters of UTair transported 4 031,9 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. Meanwhile, the export of helicopter services will be increased by 23, 2 %.

More than 100 plains and 150 helicopters of different types and classes are to be used for the performance of the productive programme.