OREANDA-NEWS. Membership in UTair Aviation's Status loyalty program for frequent flyers now exceeds 500,000.

The Status loyalty program has been effective since December 1, 2001 and includes three types of membership: Status for individuals, Status-Family and Status-Business. Membership upgrades including VIP and PREMIUM are available for participants of individual and family programs.

Currently the UTair Status program is among the most distinguished and subscribed passenger loyalty programs offered by Russian carriers in terms of both the volume of participants and the volume of rewards granted to passengers. Since the program's launch 315,668 tickets have been distributed and 9,460 service class upgrades have been awarded for the accumulated miles of program participants.

UTair's frequent flyers can also accumulate miles via the service offerings of the Status program's 70 partners. The program's partners include VTB 24 and Khanty-Mansiysk bank, hotels, taxi services, car rental agencies, insurance companies, packaging services at airports within the airline's route network and restaurants.