- Ural Airlines
Infobox Airline
airline = Ural Airlines
image_size = 150 px
IATA = U6
ICAO = SVR
callsign = SVERDLOVSK AIR
founded =1993
ceased =
hubs =Koltsovo International Airport
secondary_hubs =
focus_cities =
frequent_flyer = Travelling Club "Wings"
lounge =
alliance =
subsidiaries =
fleet_size = 27
destinations = 34
company_slogan =
headquarters =Yekaterinburg ,Russia
key_people =
website = [http://en.uralairlines.ru/ http://en.uralairlines.ru/]Ural Airlines is an
airline based inYekaterinburg ,Russia . It operates scheduled and charter, domestic and international flights. Its main base isKoltsovo International Airport . Ural Airlines also has acodeshare agreement withMalév Hungarian Airlines .Code Data
*IATA Code: U6
*ICAO Code: SVR
*Callsign: SVERDLOVSK AIR [ [http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/ Airline Codes] November 2006]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 December1993 after the separation from Yekaterinburg airport. It was established and started operations on28 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 in2007 . It is reported to be in advanced talks to source some usedATR 42 orATR 72 aircraft for use on regional routes [Airliner World January 2007] .Destination services
Ural Airlines operates to the following:
Russia *
Chita
*Chelyabinsk
*Kemerovo
*Krasnodar
*Mineralnye Vody
*Moscow
*Nadym
*Nizhnevartovsk
*Novosibirsk
*Novy Urengoy
*Salekhard
*Samara
*Sochi
*Saint Petersburg
*Yakutsk
*Yekaterinburg Asia Central Asia
*Almaty (Almaty International Airport )
*Tashkent (Tashkent International Airport )East Asia
*Ulan Bator (Chinggis Khaan International Airport )South Asia
*Goa (Dabolim Airport ) [starts Octber 26]
*Lahore (Allama Iqbal International Airport ) (tech stop)Southeast Asia
*Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi Airport )Southwest Asia
*Dubai (Dubai International Airport )
*Tel Aviv (ben Gurion International Airport )West Asia
*Baku (Heydar Aliyev International Airport )
*Yerevan (Zvartnots International Airport )Europe *
Antalya (Antalya Airport )
*Barcelona (Barcelona International Airport )
*Budapest (Budapest Ferihegy International Airport )
*Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf International Airport )
*Istanbul (Ataturk International Airport )
*Larnaca (Larnaca International Airport )
*Kiev (Boryspil Airport )
*Milan (Malpensa International Airport )
*Munich (Munich Airport )
*Prague (Ruzyne International Airport )
*Pula (Pula Airport )
*Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki International Airport, "Macedonia" )
*Tivat (Tivat Airport )
*Simferopol (Simferopol International Airport )
*Vienna (Vienna International Airport )Fleet
The Ural Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at of
1 September 2008 ) [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=U6&al_op=1] :*5
Airbus A320-200
*4Antonov An-24
*1Antonov An-32
*4Ilyushin Il-86
*1Tupolev Tu-134A
*8Tupolev Tu-154B2
*4Tupolev Tu-154M As of
1 September 2008 , the average age of the Ural Airlines fleet is 16 years ( [http://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/Ural%20Airlines.htm] ).External links
* [http://en.uralairlines.ru/ Ural Airlines]
* [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=U6&al_op=1 Ural Airlines Fleet]
* [http://www.air-valid.com/ural-airlines/avis-opinions.html Flyers Opinions Ural Airlines]References
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