Ural Airlines

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Ural Airlines
250 px
IATA ICAO Callsign
U6 SVR SVERDLOVSK AIR
Founded 1943 (as part of Aeroflot)
Commenced operations 1993
Hubs Yekaterinburg-Koltsovo
Secondary hubs
Focus cities
Frequent-flyer program Travelling Club "Wings"
Fleet size 34
Destinations 40
Headquarters Yekaterinburg, Russia
Key people Sergei Skuratov (General Director)
Website www.uralairlines.ru/en

Ural Airlines (Ура́льские авиали́нии) is an airline based in Yekaterinburg, Russia,[1] operates scheduled and chartered domestic and international flights out of Koltsovo International Airport. In 2012, the company transported 3.5 million passengers.[2] During its history the company has won the National Aviation Award "Wings of Russia" 14 times.

History

The airline was founded in 1943 as Sverdlovsk State Air Enterprises, and later became part of Aeroflot, the Soviet state airline, being in charge of Yekaterinburg Airport. Following the split-up of Aeroflot, Ural Airlines became a joint stock company incorporated under the laws of the Russian Federation on 28 December 1993, and the airline business was separated from the airport. Today, the company is owned by Ural Wings (65.77%) and Ural Transport Bank (14.67%) and has 1,390 employees.[citation needed]

Airline's Performance

Airbus A319 of Ural Airlines taxiing at Domodedovo International Airport.

The first million passengers in a year was transported in 2006. Since that time the airline has grown and the passenger number has also increased. During 2013, the airline transported 4.419 million passengers. In numbers of passengers transported, the airline came in 6th place in Russia that year.[3]

Results of the passenger transportation since 2007 till today:

  • 2014 — 5,1 million [4] (+ 17%);
  • 2013 — 4,419 million [3] (+ 25%);
  • 2012 — 3,525 million[5] (+ 40%);
  • 2011 — 2,513 million [6] (+ 40%);
  • 2010 — 1,792 million [6] (+ 12%);
  • 2009 — 1,497 million (+ 3%);
  • 2008 — 1,450 million (+ 19%);
  • 2007 — 1,217 million;

Ural Airlines contains 2262 employees. The technical base of the airline is one of the biggest and one of the modern in Russia. The technical equipment and the experience of the engineers working in that airline allows to make all the demanding processes of the airline by itself. In 2012, the airline had opened its training complex for the pilots. The system of training for Airbus A320 was 7.5 million euro. The complex included the construction works too, with 9 million euros. As the airline's CEO, he says that the training for the pilots now is not 4 days, but 4 hours.[7] The airline also palns to buy the training complex for the long-haul aircraft, which is Airbus A330-300, following the information of August 2014.[8]

Awards

Ural Airlines is one of the biggest Russia's airlines, and following the 2014, it has got the sixth place, in 2013, Ural Airlines has transported 4 500 000 passengers and compared to 2012, the passenger value has increased by 25%.[9]

In 2013, the airline had become the winner in "Wings of Russia" as the Russia's best airline 11th time and the winner in Russia's best domestic airline 4th time.[9]

Destinations

A Ural Airlines Airbus A321-200 on short final to Domodedovo International Airport in 2009.

<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>

Main article: Ural Airlines destinations

Codeshare agreements

Ural Airlines has codeshare agreements with the following airlines (as of April 2015):

Fleet

As of April 2015, the Ural Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:[10]

Ural Airlines fleet
Aircraft In Service Orders Seats Notes
B E Total
Airbus A319-100 6[11] 4 8 120 134[11]
Airbus A320-200 18[12] 7 12 144 156[13]
Airbus A321-200
10
 — 16 182 198[13]
— 220 220[14] Charter use[14]
Airbus A330-300 — 5[15] TBA For long-haul destinations, to be leased, EIS-2016
Total 34 16

Also, in plans of the fleet development of Ural Airlines there is Irkut MC-21, however, the decision is going to be made only after its commercial flight.[16]

Retired Fleet

Ilyushin Il-86 of Ural Airlines in an old livery taxiing at Domodedovo International Airport.

In 2010, Ural Airlines retired all of its Antonov An-24s, Ilyushin Il-86s and Tupolev Tu-154B2s.[17] The airline's Tupolev Tu-154M, in 164-seat two-class configuration, was retired on October 16, 2011.[18]

Ural Airlines Retired fleet
Aircraft Date retired Number of Aircrafts Notes
Antonov An-12 1998 2 Accepted from Aeroflot's break up.
Antonov An-24 2006 2 Retired from the re-branding of the airline.
Ilyushin Il-86 2010 4 One was leased from Siberia Airlines.
Till 2010 was the only wide-body aircraft in the airline's fleet, till the appearance of Airbus A330-300 in 2016.
Tupolev Tu-154B 2006 3 Retired from the re-branding of the airline.
Tupolev Tu-154M 2011[18] 5 The last soviet-built aircraft.
Total 16

See also

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.

Use <references />, or <references group="..." />

External links

  1. ↑ Home page. Ural Airlines. Retrieved on 18 July 2010. "Address: Utrenniy 1g, Ekaterinburg Russia, 620025, SITA SVXTOU6" Russian address: Home page. "Адрес: 620025, Россия, Екатеринбург, пер. Утренний, 1г"
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[dead link]
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Перевозки пассажиров | Росавиация
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Пассажиропоток «Уральских авиалиний» за год вырос на 40 %
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Росавиация, Основные показатели работы гражданской авиации России за январь-декабрь 2010—2011 годы
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 ru:Уральские авиалинии[better source needed]
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ http://www.uralairlines.ru/information/news-and-press-releases/35-y-airbus-v-parke-uralskikh-avialiniy-/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Ural Airlines Official seating charts, russian only
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ http://www.ato.ru/content/uralskie-avialinii-otkazalis-ot-gosgarantiy
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Ural_Airlines&oldid=4045006"