- CEO
- Kirill Sergeevich Skuratov
- Sector
- Transportation
- Industry
- Airlines
- Address
- Yekaterinburg Russian Federation
- IPO Date
- Nov 9, 2009
- Business
- AO Ural'skiye Avialinii (Ural Airlines) is a Russian aviation enterprise primarily engaged in providing scheduled and charter passenger air transportation, air freight logistics, and specialized aeronautical technical services. The company operates through key business segments comprising Passenger Air Transportation, Cargo and Mail Transportation, and Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services. Its core products and service offerings include scheduled domestic and international passenger flights connecting major Russian regional centers and international destinations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Middle East, and Asia; customized charter flight programs for corporate clients, government organizations, and tour operators; air cargo, express mail, and specialized freight carriage; aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services conducted through its certified aviation technical center; and ancillary passenger services, including paid baggage allowances, seat selection, onboard meal services, travel insurance packages, and the Wings (Krylya) frequent flyer loyalty program. The airline operates a passenger fleet of narrow-body aircraft, including Airbus A319, A320ceo, A320neo, A321ceo, and A321neo models, serving routes through its primary operational base at Koltsovo International Airport in Yekaterinburg, alongside key operating bases at Moscow Domodedovo, Moscow Zhukovsky, Saint Petersburg Pulkovo, and Sochi. Tracing its origins to 1943 as the Sverdlovsk United Air Squadron and officially incorporated in 1993 following the restructuring of the Sverdlovsk Aviation Enterprise, the company is headquartered in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation. In recent strategic and operational developments, Ural Airlines completed sovereign-backed insurance settlements and title regularizations for its foreign-leased Airbus aircraft fleet via Russian state financing mechanisms, clearing international operational encumbrances. Concurrently, the carrier has expanded its international scheduled flight network by resuming and launching direct routes to destinations in China, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Central Asian states, while substantially expanding the in-house capabilities of its Yekaterinburg technical maintenance center to perform comprehensive heavy maintenance checks, component overhauls, and avionics servicing independently.