‘A great number of our flights to various destinations are unprofitable, and they always have been. Today, people blame us for the absence of new aircrafts. This is a real problem for the bulk of Russian air-carriers, and, within the next few years, the situation will turn even worse due to the deficient domestic production of aircrafts and high import duties,’ the spokesperson for Ural Airlines PR-department said to UrBC representative.

According to the PR-department of Ural Airlines, the company has successfully abided by its existing aircraft fleet up to now. It was quite enough to provide for Yekaterinburg airport traffic flow; it was also able to meet the EU environmental and other requirements after some engineering changes. Yet the company’s flights to a lot of destinations have been unprofitable. These losses have been compensated at the cost of the more lucrative flights that find a market. Ural Airlines do continue to perform flights to unprofitable destinations in order to maintain the air-traffic network and to supply its clients with the full range of services including transfer traffic. The company also keeps its unprofitable flights to retain the possibility of a gradual increase in the air-traffic flow.