OREANDA-NEWS. UTair Aviation announces the launch of a new international route between Kazan and Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

Flights to Baku from the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan are scheduled to start on March 6, 2014 and will be performed once a week on Thursdays. Flights from Kazan will depart at 13:30 and flights from Baku will depart at 8:30, all times are local. Flight time between destinations is three hours.

Flights will be performed with Boeing 737-500 aircraft with both economy and business class seating.

One-way airfare starts at €129.*

Economy class airfare before agency fees. Seats are limited. UTair reserves the right to cancel or change tariffs without notice at any time .

UTair Aviation ranks among the top three Russian airlines. In 2013 UTair Aviation aircraft transported 9,625,295 passengers and the combined UTair Group fleet transported 10,413,803 passengers. UTair Aviation operates more than 150 fixed wing aircraft and performs flights to 110 destinations in Russia and abroad. The airline maintains its central hub at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, from which it performs more than 100 flights daily.