OREANDA-NEWS. June 03, 2010. UTair Aviation has been designated the official carrier for international finals of the Global Management Challenge, the world's largest strategy and management competition. The teams, – all winners of the national phase of the competition – came from 26 countries to participate in the final, held in Russia for the first time.

UTair flew about 200 finalists and foreign guests of this prestigious intellectual competition to Khanty-Mansiysk.

The International Final of the competition was hosted by order of the Russian government. The event was organized by the authorities of the Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous Region in Yugra at the Academy of National Economics in cooperation with the federal government of Russia and the International Organizing Committee of the Global Management Challenge with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The Global Management Challenge competition was established in Portugal in 1980 and has been conducted in more than 30 countries worldwide. More than 400,000 people have participated in the competition in its 30 year history. Each year more than 20,000 participants from around the world compete for the title of best management team in a simulated business environment.