Snezhana Medova

Utair Group

Utair Group is the Russian major aviation group with over 50 years of history operating on 4 continents. Utair Group includes companies which engage in aircraft operation (airplanes and helicopters), aircraft repair and maintenance, personnel training, provision of in-flight services, and air transport service sales. The group consists of the companies such as Utair Airlines, Utair Helicopter Services, Turukhan, Vostok, Utair CJSC, Helisur, Utair Europe, Utair South Africa, Utair India, TS Technic, and Utair Engineering JSC, to name a few. Utair Group's fleet includes 65 airplanes and 338 helicopters. Currently, Utair employs 11,000 highly skilled specialists The Company is headquartered in Surgut. Utair Group offers a wide range of services for private and corporate clients, such as VIP transport services, charter transport flights, tourist charter flights, and air transport services for rotational crews. Utair Airlines is at the core of the Utair Group's business and is part of the top 5 airlines on the Russian air transport market. Utair Airlines performs flights to 170 destinations, 65 of which are unique to the company. In first half-year of 2017, Utair transported 3,272,530 passengers, up 15,9% as the same period last year. Utair Airlines operates regular passenger flights to Russia's major cities, such as Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Khanty-Mansiysk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Sochi, St. Petersburg, Surgut, Tyumen, Ufa and Yekaterinburg, to name a few. Baku, Berlin, Dushanbe, Heraklion, Minsk, Munich, Riga, Tashkent, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Vilnius and Yerevan, are some of its international destinations. Utair Helicopter Services is the biggest company in the world for carrying capacity of helicopters. Since 1991, Utair Helicopter Services has been the UN contractor for humanitarian cargo helicopter deliveries. Since 2001, the company has been the largest provider of air transport services for UN.