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UTair Aviation has launched flight operations with Boeing 757-200 aircraft as part of its passenger fleet modernization program.

The plane made its debut flight on the airline's Krasnoyarsk-Antalya route.

The Boeing 757-200 can carry 227 passengers in economy class and will service the most popular destinations. In particular the aircraft will be operated on international routes, connecting Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Ekaterinburg and Samara as well as for flights to popular resort destinations in Turkey and Egypt.

The launch of operations with the Boeing 757-200 aircraft is part of UTair’s development strategy for incorporating medium-range aircraft into its fleet to expand the airline's flight geography and increase passenger volumes.

UTair aircraft will perform more than 250 flights daily during this year's summer-season, transporting more than 15,000 passengers.

In 2010 the UTair fleet will transport more than 4.8 million passengers – 30% more than in 2009.

In addition, 20 new routes will be launched. To accomplish the 2010 work program the airline will use more than100
planes, including Boeing 757-200, Tu-154Ì, Boeing 737-500, ATR 72, Bombardier CRJ 200 and ATR 42 aircraft.

UTair choisit le Superjet 100

UTair place sa confiance en Sukhoi. La compagnie russe a annoncé le 4 octobre qu’elle avait choisi de remplacer ses Tupolev 134 par des Sujerjet 100. Elle a opté pour deux versions de l’appareil, le SSJ100-75B et le SSJ100-95B.

L’appel d’offres qu’elle avait lancé portait sur une quinzaine d’appareils de 75 à 80 places et 100 à 105 places.

UTair exploite aujourd’hui vingt-huit Tu-134, pouvant transporter entre 68 et 76 passagers. La compagnie a prévu de retirer tous ses appareils d’ici 2015. La production du Tu-134 a été arrêtée en 1984.

Ils ne sont pas les seuls à devoir quitter la flotte d’ici 2015. Tous les appareils de construction soviétique suivent le même mouvement. UTair exploite encore vingt Tu-154, vingt-quatre Antonov 24, quatre An-26, un An-74, quarante-sept An-2 et six Yakovlev 40. Elle opère également une vingtaine de Boeing 737 (400 et 500), deux 757-200, dix-sept ATR 42 et 72, sept CRJ 200 et deux Let 410.

UTAir to sign for 20 ATRs and seeks 737s or A320s

Russian carrier UTAir is to place a firm order for new ATR 72-500 regional aircraft next week and select a Western twinjet for mainline routes.
The airline's fleet management chief Alexei Budnik says the contract, due to be signed with ATR on 7 April, will cover the supply of 20 turboprops.
They will complement, rather than replace, three ATR 72-200s and 12 ATR 42-300s in the carrier's fleet.
"We've postponed phasing out older models as we need a greater capacity to develop regional services," says Budnik.
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Budnik says negotiations with both Western airframers are in progress. He adds: "The size of an order for 737 modern variants or A320s could be in two-digit numbers."

The Russian air carrier UTair has taken delivery of its first ATR 72-500 aircraft, which is also the first one of this type to be operating in Russia.

UTair and ATR recently announced an order for 20 aircraft, estimated at US $ 426 million.

The remaining ATR 72-500 aircraft will be delivered in 2011 and 2012.

The delivery of these new 70-seater aircraft will bring the number of ATR aircraft operated by UTair up to 37, making UTair the largest operator of ATR aircraft in Europe.

With the entry into service of the 20 new ATR 72-500 aircraft, UTair will provide a higher number of seats on routes with increasing passenger demand.

Today the UTair network of routes on which ATR aircraft are operating, includes nearly 40 Russian and international
destinations.

Its territory extends from the Baltic States to Eastern Siberia and from the far north of Russia to south Ukraine.

With the acquisition of the new ATR aircraft, UTair is also significantly opening up its route network to access new areas both domestically and internationally.

Currently the UTair fleet consists of nearly 200 aircraft, most of which run on domestic routes to roughly 300 destinations.

UTair has been operating ATR aircraft since 2006, when the company brought the first ATR aircraft into operation in Russia.

Commenting on the order, Andrey Martirosov, UTair Chief Executive Officer, declares:

“We are proud of the fact that we have brought the ATR 72-500 aircraft into operation in Russia and can provide our
passengers with state-of-the-art comfort on these new aircraft.
We will also be delighted to become the largest operator of ATR aircraft in Europe and one of the largest in the world.

The new ATR 72-500 aircraft represents the optimum combination of the lowest operating cost and technical maintenance costs in regional aviation”.


Filippo Bagnato, Chief Executive Officer of ATR, declares:

“Russia and the CIS countries are providing us strong commercial opportunities as they expand their regional connectivity.

The delivery of UTair’s 20 ATR aircraft will clearly play a major role in reinforcing our market footprint in that region”.

UTair finalizes order for 40 Boeing 737s


Russia’s UTair Aviation has finalized its previously announced order for 40 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], Boeing announced Tuesday.

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The order consists of seven 737-900ERs and 33 737-800s and is worth $3.8 billion at list prices, although airlines get substantial discounts

UTair leases seven 737s from Sberbank

Russian UTair airline (UT) has signed a leasing agreement with Sberbank Leasing Co., for two Boeing 737-800s and five 737-500s for five years, in a deal estimated to be worth $100 million. According to a UT statement, the aircraft were delivered at the end of 2011.

Sberbank Leasing said one of its main company strategies is to strengthen positions in the aviation market. After the first nine months of 2011, the company had a backlog worth more than RUB202 billion ($6.5 billion).

UT operates a fleet of more than 200 aircraft, including 25 737-500s, nine 737-800s, six 737-400s and four 757-200s. In 2011, UTair group (which includes airlines and helicopter operators) carried 6.75 million passengers.

AgustaWestland has certified UTair as an authorized service center for the AW139.

The Russian operator has agreed to purchase 10 AW139s for passenger transport, corporate and VIP missions from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sochi and other based in Siberia.

AgustaWestland plans to hand over the first helicopter this summer, with deliveries continuing through summer 2013.

Staff training is under way, and UTair intends to hire 60 pilots and 40 technicians to operate the AW139 fleet.

AgustaWestland will assemble the helicopters at HeliVert, a joint venture with Russian Helicopters.

Plans call for the plant to build up to 20 helicopters annually with ramp-up to full production in 2015.

The Copas Partnership are proud to support Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust. We make regular donations year round and in 2011 donated a total of £500.

TVACAA was established in 1999 as one of six air ambulance charities sponsored by the Automobile Association (AA) for a period of three years. The charity itself was incorporated in 2000. In January 2007, the base for the helicopter was relocated from White Waltham Aero Club near Maidenhead to RAF Benson in Oxfordshire. In July 2008 they took delivery of the EC135 Eurocopter, liveried in a distinctive red and yellow colour scheme, with the registration of G-HBOB reflecting the three counties it serves.

TVACAA functions solely to raise the funds required to keep the helicopter flying. Each mission flown costs approximately £2,000 with an average of 3 missions per day. The Charity is not involved in tasking the helicopter or in its operation.

ACCIDENT victims across Oxfordshire will get rapid life-saving help following the relocation of the air ambulance to its new home at RAF Benson this week.

The Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance used to take nine minutes to get to Oxford from its base near Maidenhead.

But the journey time has dropped to two minutes since it started responding to 999 calls from its new home on Monday.

General manager Stevie Horton said about ten per cent of the helicopter's 916 missions last year were in Oxfordshire.

She said: "There will be faster response times from our new base. It'll only take a couple of minutes to get to Oxford and will be a real life saver for Oxfordshire residents.

"Half the call-outs are road traffic accidents. The other half are made up of things like accidents on golf courses, agricultural and equestrian injuries, children in playgrounds, and walkers. The helicopter will get there within minutes. It will be a big plus for the people of Oxfordshire."

The Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance is a charity. Although South Central Ambulance Service supplies paramedics free of charge, it costs £1.2m a year to keep the Bolkow 105 machine in the air.

Mrs Horton said the move to RAF Benson would boost the organisation's finances.

As well as giving them access to cheap air force fuel, subsidised by the Government, it could encourage Oxfordshire residents to fund-raise for their cause.

She said: "We have a great amount of support in Berkshire but not in Oxfordshire. I suppose I can see why.

"Now the helicopter is based in the county there's every incentive to fund-raise for us.

"We're looking to upgrade to a Eurocopter 135. It will cost £1.5m a year - so it is important that the people of Oxfordshire get behind us and help us get it as soon as we can.

"At the moment we operate seven days a week, 365 days a year. But if we didn't get the funding we need, we would have to cut our service and we don't want that to happen."