OREANDA-NEWS. February 24, 2011. According to UTair Aviation year end results for 2010, the airline has been recognized as the most reliable carrier among the Russian airlines serving Pulkovo Airport. Indicators show that the regularity of UTair flights received and dispatched by St. Petersburg's main air terminal are in 87% compliance with the airlines stated timetable. Overall, UTair conducted a total of 3,795 flights from Pulkovo in 2010.

This high level of aeronautical and timetable engineering has been achieved through the coordinated efforts and precision integration of the service units and departments of UTair Aviation and Pulkovo Airport responsible for supporting passenger services.

It should be mentioned that Lufthansa Airlines was recognized as the most reliable foreign carrier serving Pulkovo Airport with a regularity factor of 79% compliance with its own timetable.

Regularity in airline service is recognized as a ration of the quantity of the flights performed without delay against the total number of all flights performed by a given airline. The high level of UTair flight regularity has many times been noted by the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) and the nations largest airports.

In 2010 the UTair Aviation Group fixed wing and helicopter fleets performed more than 80,000 flights and transported more than 5.76 million passengers. In 2011 more than 7 million people will fly UTair to destinations in Russia and abroad.