November 30, 2012. Ural Airlines Director-General Sergey Skuratov was voted the No.1 candidate for the Delovoy Kvartal magazine’s annual prize Person of the Year. The prize was awarded at Yekaterinburg Opera House on November 28. Apart from Skuratov, five more heads of Sverdlovsk Region-based haulers were among the nominees for the prize, the airline’s press service reports.

The Person of The Year Prize was founded by Delovoy Kvartal magazine and has been awarded for the 3d time this year. The prize is given to heads of companies for their contribution to the development of the transportation industry and to their company’s success. The winner in each category is chosen by an group of business community experts.

The prize thus signifies the recognition of Ural Airlines’s success in 2012 by the fellow businesspeople. Among the company’s success stories this year are the construction of a unique pilot training simulator center, signing an agreement with a leading IT company Amadeus, and launching new flights from outside Yekaterinburg.