Ural Airlines

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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 (SVX).

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Services 4 Fleet 5 References 6 External links

[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.

[edit] Services

Ural Airlines operates the following services (at January 2005):

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Chita, Adler/Sochi, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow, Nadym, Nizhnevartovsk, Noyabrsk, Novy Urengoy, Salekhard, Samara, St Petersburg, Ufa and Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg.

• International scheduled destinations: Dubai, Dushanbe, Khudzhand, Munich, Paris, Prague, Tashkent and Yerevan.

[edit] Fleet

The Ural Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006):

• 2 Airbus 320-211 (leased by a Letter of Intent with Aughras Trading of Ireland)
• 4 Antonov An-24
• 1 Antonov An-32
• 5 Ilyushin Il-86
• 1 Tupolev Tu-134A
• 12 Tupolev Tu-154B
• 4 Tupolev Tu-154M^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Airline Codes
2. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006

[edit] External links

• Ural Airlines