Ural Airlines and Lufthansa Technik sign cooperation agreement

Ural Airlines’ experts came up with a report on the results of the air carrier’s activity in the first eight months of the year. The company’s press officer reports their passenger turnover rose by 21% compared to January-August 2007 and reached 1.02 million people. The carrier flew 197,600 passengers in August 2008 alone, which was 14% better than a year earlier and set the year’s record so far. The increase was the greatest among international travelers. The passenger turnover at international flights grew by 59% against January-August 2007, that at domestic flights dropped by 1%, and that

‘The city of Yekaterinburg proves to be one of our most effective business development directions in Europe,’ Bart Buyse, General Director St Petersburg and Russian Regions at Lufthansa German Airlines said at a recent press conference in Yekaterinburg. The airline reports their passenger turnover increases faster in Yekaterinburg than it does in Moscow or Saint Petersburg, which makes the former one of the three top cities for Lufthansa. Lufthansa executive said during the conference that Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg has all the potential needed to become a hub, but its transformation

Ural Airlines and Grazhdanskiye Samolyoty Sukhogo (Sukhoi Civil Aircraft) signed an agreement of intent regarding the purchase of five SuperJet100 airplanes. 'Ural Airlines thus made it clear that they intend to support Russian aircraft makers and, since the carrier needs some new airplanes with small seating capacity, the company held preliminary talks with representatives of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft; the agenda of this meeting covered looking into the technical characteristics of the aircraft and giving Ural Airlines’ future business partners all the data on the potential travel routes so

Ural Airlines are getting ready to sign its first online interline agreement with Hahn Air Lines GmbH, the German carrier; this is part of the general project aimed at introducing e-ticketing practices in Yekaterinburg. The two parties are currently looking at all overlapping areas of their services; the next stage of negotiations will concern full automation of all their procedures. An interline agreement is particularly difficult to handle online due to legal technicalities that demand that all the areas of cooperation must be indicated in the agreement in detail, which is necessary to make

A meeting of Federal Antimonopoly Service in Sverdlovsk Region devoted to alleged violation of antimonopoly law by Koltsovo airport took place on March 20, 2007. At the beginning of the year, the airport was found guilty of using monopolist practices and violating the federal law on protection of competition. Once again, the airport’s management appears to be trying to exert pressure on carriers through signing agreements which provide for a 100% advance payment covering all the expenses occasioned by the aircraft maintenance, fuel, and food in the given month, reports the spokesperson for