UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 21, 2010. Ural Airlines operated 1,810 flights in August 2010, including 707 international ones, 845 domestic ones, and 258 flights within the CIS. This was actually 5% better than a year earlier. As for the passenger turnover, 236,797 people flew with the carrier in August, which was 6% better than twelve months earlier.
Ural Airlines managed to improve on its performance indicators thanks to entering some new markets: in the year 2010, the airline did more business in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, and Irkutsk. This winter, the air carrier expects to launch quite a few new destinations and flights. For one, wintertime flights from Yekaterinburg to Barcelona, Spain and to Sofia, Bulgaria, will be operated for the first time in the upcoming season. In addition, Ural Airlines is also introducing a new Ufa-Dubai flight.