Utair


Utair is a Russian airline with its head office at Khanty-Mansiysk Airport while its hubs are at Surgut International Airport and Vnukovo International Airport. It operates scheduled domestic and some international passenger services, scheduled helicopter services, and extensive charter flights with fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters in support of the oil and gas industry across western Siberia.

History

In February 1967, the Aeroflot Tyumen Directorate was set up to meet the transport requirements of the fast-growing oil and gas industry undergoing development in western Siberia. In the wake of the break-up of the Aeroflot organization, Tyumenaviatrans Aviation was formed in 1991 to replace the Aeroflot Tyumen Directorate. TAT adopted the name of UTair in early 2003.
The airline is owned by Khanty Mansiysk District administration, Surgut City administration, Russian shareholders and companies, the Russian Federation, and private foreign investors.
In October 2010, Utair announced plans to replace its Tupolev Tu-134 fleet with the Sukhoi Superjet 100. In December, UTair officially placed an order for 24 of the jets to enter service in 2013. Also in 2010, the airline named a Tu-154 aircraft after Boris Evdokimovich Sherbina, a Tyumenfigure.
In November 2014, Utair faced financial difficulties and was unable to make a bond payment. In April 2015, Utair announced a fleet reduction of over 50 aircraft due to financial difficulty. It also cancelled its order for 24 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft. A few weeks later, its regional airline subsidiary UTair Express ceased operations.
In December 2015, it was announced that Utair sold its leisure subsidiary Azur Air to Turkish tourism company Anex Tourism Group, which had bought UTair-Ukraine a few weeks earlier.
On 31 October 2017, Utair announced its rebranding and changing its name from "UTair Aviation" to "Utair".
During April to early May 2020, company refused to refund tickets to passengers who can not fly due to quarantine measures of the COVID-19 outbreak. Class action lawsuit is in progress according to Airline-Inform site.

Destinations

Codeshare agreements

Utair has a codeshare agreement with following airlines:

Current fleet

, the Utair mainline fleet consists of the following aircraft :

Retired fleet

The airline used to operate these aircraft before.

AircraftYear introducedYear retiredNotes
Airbus A321-20020132015The only Airbus aircraft in the fleet
Antonov An-2419932014
ATR 42-30020052014
Bombardier CRJ100LR20102014
Bombardier CRJ200LR20102014
Boeing 757-20020102015
Tupolev Tu-13419992014
Tupolev Tu-154M19922014One of the last Russian operators of this aircraft
Yakovlev Yak-4019922012
Yakovlev Yak-4220062013

Accidents and incidents