Ural Airlines is an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...

, Russia

Russia

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, operating scheduled and chartered domestic and international flights out of Koltsovo International Airport

Koltsovo International Airport

Koltsovo Airport is an international airport located 16 km southeast of Yekaterinburg, Russia. The airport is a hub for Ural Airlines and Aviacon Zitotrans....

. In 2008, the company transported 1,450,153 passengers.

History

The airline was established in 1943 as Sverdlovsk State Air Enterprises, and later became part of Aeroflot

Aeroflot

OJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines , commonly known as Aeroflot , is the flag carrier and largest airline of the Russian Federation, based on passengers carried per year...

, the Soviet

Soviet Union

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 state airline, being in charge of Yekaterinburg Airport. Following the split-up of Aeroflot

Babyflot

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, Ural Airlines became a joint stock company

Joint stock company

A joint-stock company is a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more individuals that own shares of stock in the company...

 incorporated under the laws of the Russian Federation on 28 December 1993, and the airline business was separated from the airport. Today, the company is owned by Ural Wings (65.77%) and Ural Transport Bank (14.67%) and has 1390 employees.

Destinations

Codeshare agreements

Ural Airlines has codeshare agreements with the following airlines:
Armavia

Armavia

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 Austrian Airlines

Austrian Airlines

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 (Star Alliance

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) Czech Airlines

Czech Airlines

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 (SkyTeam

SkyTeam

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) Finnair

Finnair

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 (Oneworld

Oneworld

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) RusLine

RusLine

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Fleet

As of November 2011, the Ural Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 12.6 years:

Ural Airlines fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Orders	Seats			Notes
			Business	Economy	Total
Airbus A320-200	13	3	15	144	159	2 leased from GECAS
Airbus A321-200	7	1	16	182	198	To be delivered in 2011
Airbus A321-200	1		—	220	220	charter use
Total	21	4

In 2010, Ural Airlines operated all ageing Antonov An-24

Antonov An-24

The Antonov An-24 is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau from 1957.-Design and development:...

s, Ilyushin Il-86

Ilyushin Il-86

The Ilyushin Il-86 is a medium-range wide-body jet airliner. It was the USSR's first wide-body and the world's second four-engined wide-body...

s and Tupolev Tu-154B-2's

Tupolev Tu-154

The Tupolev Tu-154 is a three-engine medium-range narrow-body airliner designed in the mid 1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. As the mainstay 'workhorse' of Soviet and Russian airlines for several decades, it serviced over a sixth of the world's landmass and carried half of all passengers flown...

 it had operated until then. The airline also operated Tupolev Tu-154M in 164-seat two-class configuration, last three were phased out in October, 16, 2011.

Accurate data on Airbus A320 family

Airbus A320 family

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 aircraft operated by Ural Airlines is available trough the airline's official website and some other russian sources, such as Aviaport digest. English-language sources are CH-Aviation and Planespotters.net

Ural Airlines plans to introduce widebodies. According to the airline's advanced development plan, it plans to begin flying long-range wide-body airplanes of the A330

Airbus A330

The Airbus A330 is a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner made by Airbus, a division of EADS. Versions of the A330 have a range of and can accommodate up to 335 passengers in a two-class layout or carry of cargo....

 or Boeing 767

Boeing 767

The Boeing 767 is a mid-size, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was the manufacturer's first wide-body twinjet and its first airliner with a two-crew glass cockpit. The aircraft features two turbofan engines, a supercritical wing, and a conventional tail...

type in 2012-2013, decision yet to be made.

External links

• Official website