OREANDA-NEWS. January 16, 2012. Ural Airlines finished the year 2011 with another record. On New Year's Eve, 31 December, the 2.5 millionth passenger checked in for the flight for the first time. This time the jubilee passenger was Aleksey Kharitonov who flew from Yekaterinburg to Barcelona on flight 3787. Alexey is a long-standing client of Ural Airlines; since January 2007 he has been a participant of the bonus program Krylya (Wings) and took more than 150 flights with the air carrier. Ural Airlines will contact him soon to give valuable presents from the company.

It should be noted that the Ural Airlines passenger traffic increases by one-third each year. In 2011 the airline transported its millionth passenger a month earlier than in 2010 and for the first time the number of clients exceeded 2,500,000 people.