Ural Airlines


Ural Airlines is an airline based in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, that operates scheduled and chartered domestic and international flights out of Koltsovo International Airport. In 2018, the company transported nine million passengers.

Overview

The airline was founded in 1943 as Sverdlovsk State Air Enterprises, and later became part of Aeroflot, the Soviet state airline, being in charge of Yekaterinburg Airport. Following the split-up of Aeroflot, Ural Airlines became a joint stock company incorporated under the laws of the Russian Federation on 28 December 1993, and the airline business was separated from the airport.
In 2010, Ural Airlines retired all of its Antonov An-24s, Ilyushin Il-86s and Tupolev Tu-154B-2s. The airline's Tupolev Tu-154M, in 164-seat two-class configuration, was retired on October 16, 2011.
Ural Airlines has 3348 employees. The technical base of the airline is one of the biggest and most modern in Russia. Its technical equipment and experienced engineers allow Ural Airlines to provide necessary services in-house. In 2012, the airline opened its training complex for pilots. The system of training for Airbus A320 was 7.5 million euro. The complex included the construction works too, with 9 million euros.
The airline also plans to buy the training complex for the Airbus A330-300.
In 2017, Skytrax gave Ural Airlines 3 stars, which made it the fourth airline with three stars in Russia and CIS after S7 Airlines, Uzbekistan Airlines and Air Moldova.
Currently, main hubs of Ural Airlines are Moscow-Domodedovo and Yekaterinburg. Ural Airlines has plans to increase its number of hubs, by developing hubs at Moscow-Sheremetyevo and Moscow-Zhukovsky.
In 2020, flights to commenced to Russian-occupied Crimea.

Corporate affairs

A million passengers per year was first achieved in 2006. Since then, the airline and its passenger numbers have both grown. In 2013, the airline transported 4.419 million passengers, the sixth most in Russia that year.
YearAmount
20189.001 million
20178.000 million
20166.467 million
20155.445 million
20145.161 million
20134.419 million
20123.525 million
20112.513 million
20101.792 million
20091.497 million
20081.450 million
20071.217 million
20061.011 million
20050.909 million

Destinations

Codeshare agreements

Ural Airlines has codeshare agreements with the following airlines:

Current fleet

, the Ural Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:


Ural Airlines also started considering updating its fleet with newer Airbus A320neo family or Boeing 737 Next Generation and is still considering purchasing Airbus A330. It took delivery of its first Airbus A320neo in August 2019. The airline also considered purchasing Irkut MC-21s, but the plans were probably withdrawn. Lately, Ural Airlines announced the purchase of 2 Airbus A321neoLR, that will be delivered in 2019, with a possible replacement of older Airbus A321-200.
The airline moved up its plans to increase its fleet size from 43 to 50 in 2018, moving up its original plans to do so by 2020.

Retired fleet


AircraftTotalYear IntroducedYear RetiredNotes
Antonov An-12219921998Accepted from Aeroflot's break up.
Antonov An-24219922006Retired from the re-branding of the airline.
Ilyushin Il-8642010One was leased from Siberia Airlines.
It was the only wide-body aircraft in the airline's fleet.
Tupolev Tu-154B32006Retired from the re-branding of the airline.
Tupolev Tu-154M52011The last Soviet-built aircraft.

Accidents and incidents