‘The range of flight destinations Ural Airlines is going to operate this year has been greatly expanded. We now offer our customers many more flights to the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, the Czech Republic, and a number of other countries. In addition, we have recently resumed our flights to Paris and are planning on introducing a London-bound flight. In fact, over 80% of our New Year offers have already been booked and sold. We actually expect the passenger turnover to go up by 25% in the first quarter of 2009,’ Ural Airlines’ General Director Sergey Skuratov announced in the course of a press conference.

‘The company keeps developing dynamically despite the financial crisis. The construction of our new office will probably have been completed by March 2009, while two or three years later, we intend to launch a brand new 110-meter-long aircraft shed that will be able to fit virtually any kind of plane,’ he added.