Ural Airlines

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Ural Airlines
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IATA U6	ICAO SVR	Callsign Sverdlovsk Air
Founded		1993
Hubs		Koltsovo International Airport
Frequent flyer program		Travelling Club
Fleet size		29
Destinations		31
Headquarters		Yekaterinburg, Russia
Key people
Website: http://en.uralairlines.ru/

Ural Airlines is an airline based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It operates scheduled and charter, domestic and international flights. Its main base is Koltsovo International Airport. Ural Airlines also has a codeshare agreement with Malév Hungarian Airlines.

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Destination services 3.1 Russia 3.2 Asia 3.3 Europe 4 Fleet 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Code Data

• IATA Code: U6
• ICAO Code: SVR
• Callsign: Sverdlovsk Air ^[1]

[edit] History

Sverdlovsk State Air Enterprises started operations in 1943. Ural Airlines is a joint stock company incorporated under the laws of the Russian Federation in December 1993 after the separation from Yekaterinburg airport. It was established and started operations on 28 December 1993. It is owned by Ural Wings (65.77%) and Ural Transport Bank (14.67%). It employs 1390 staff.

Following the recent delivery of Airbus A320 aircraft, Ural Airlines is expected to introduce further Western aircraft in 2007. It is reported to be in advanced talks to source some used ATR 42 or ATR 72 aircraft for use on regional routes ^[2].

[edit] Destination services

Ural Airlines operates to the following:

[edit] Russia

• Chita
• Chelyabinsk
• Kemerovo
• Krasnodar
• Mineralnye Vody
• Moscow
• Nadym
• Nizhnevartovsk
• Novosibirsk
• Novy Urengoy
• Salekhard
• Samara
• Sochi
• St. Petersburg
• Yakutsk
• Yekaterinburg

[edit] Asia

• Antalya
• Baku
• Bangkok
• Dubai
• Tashkent
• Tel Aviv
• Yerevan

[edit] Europe

• Barcelona
• Budapest
• Dusseldorf
• Istanbul
• Larnaca
• Munich
• Prague
• Pula
• Thessaloniki
• Vienna

[edit] Fleet

The Ural Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) ^[3] :

• 2 (7 orders) Airbus A320
• 4 Antonov An-24
• 1 Antonov An-32
• 5 Ilyushin Il-86
• 1 Tupolev Tu-134A
• 12 Tupolev Tu-154B
• 4 Tupolev Tu-154M

[edit] External links

• Ural Airlines

[edit] References

1. ^ Airline Codes November 2006
2. ^ Airliner World January 2007
3. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006

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