UTair’s domestic traffic grew 25.5% in 2016

UTair Aviation carried 5.6m domestic passengers in 2016, up 25.5% year-over-year, according to the carrier. Overall, the airline carried a total of 6.6m passengers, up 20.1% YOY. UTair cited network development and frequencies increase, as well as a 2-point load factor rise to 71.9%, for the results. In 2016, UTair’s network exceeded 160 destinations. The airline expanded the number of routes in the south of the country and in Siberia. It launched flights from Novy Urengoy in the north part of Western Siberia to Tyumen and Moscow, and started one of its shortest services—Krasnodar-Sochi—and connected both of these cities with Yerevan (Armenia). In addition, UTair resumed Moscow-Minsk and Moscow-Baku flights, and added 45 new international destinations to the network as a result of interline agreements. <br/>
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