UM Airlines

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UM Airlines (also known as Ukrainian Mediterrean Airlines or UM Air) is an airline based in Kiev, Ukraine. It operates domestic services and services to CIS countries and the Middle East.

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Incidents and accidents 4 Services 5 Fleet 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Code Data

• IATA Code: UF
• ICAO Code: UKM
• Callsign: UKRAINE MEDITERRANEE

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1998 and began operations in June 2000. It was founded as an open-end joint stock company. In 2003 UM Air had over 500 employees and carried 210,000 passengers. The airline now has 640 staff.

[edit] Incidents and accidents

On 26 May 2003 an UM Yak-42-D crashed near Macka, Trabzon (Turkey) while carrying 62 Spanish troops from Afghanistan to Zaragoza Air Base. All 75 on board died. At the time, the Spanish presence in the ISAF missions was being disputed among the Spanish politicians. There were accusations of the ministry of Defence hiring cheap unfit crafts. The scandal damaged the image of minister Federico Trillo. Furthermore, in 2004 it was revealed that the corpse identification in the Turkish mountains was rushed and several bodies were delivered to the wrong relatives.

[edit] Services

UM Airlines operates the following services (at October 2006):

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Chernovtsy, Kharkov, Kiev, Simferopol and Uzhgorod.

• International scheduled destinations: Almaty, Amman, Astana, Batumi, Beirut, Damascus, İstanbul, Minsk, Naples, Pavlodar, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tehran and Ust-Kamenogorsk.

[edit] Fleet

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

• 1 Airbus A320-200
• 4 Antonov An-24
• 2 Tupolev Tu-134A
• 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-82
• 1 McDonnell Douglas MD-83^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006

[edit] External links

• (Russian)/(English) UM Airlines