UTair Greets Passengers on Children's Day

On June 1 UTair Aviation expressed its best wishes to its young passengers on the International Children's Day.

"Children's Day is a holiday which has been gaining special significance in modern Russia," said UTair - Passenger Airlines President Oleg Semenov. "This day combines the carefree cheerfulness of childhood and a social reminder concerning society's primary responsibility to nurture and protect the new generation by providing it with care and support."

Mr Semenov emphasized that UTair regards children as a special category of passengers who not only have the same rights as other passengers, but also require special care and attention. In addition to the usual complimentary set of pencils and coloring pages, starting in June all UTair flights will also offer young passengers their own edutainment newspaper, Rascal (Neposeda). The newspaper will offer kids rebuses, riddles, comics, fairy tales, amusing facts about world around them, stories about travel, board games and many other things that will ensure kids find some use in their time onboard. In addition, on the pages of the newspaper young passengers will meet the beloved character Mishka the Pilot, whom they have long known from UTair coloring pages. These surprises will keep the children occupied during their flight with creative activities and interesting games.

All regularly scheduled UTair direct flights also feature chaperone service for children from 5 to 16 years old traveling alone.

Projects supporting children are a permanent component of UTair's corporate social responsibility program. Among the largest projects launched recently is the Heart Has Two Wings program under which UTair has been transporting children with severe and rare diseases from distant regions to Moscow for medical treatment.

UTair, together with its hub airports, regularly organize field trips for children where they can learn about the details of everyday airport ground services operations. UTair has for many years also been cooperating with the Gift of Life charity fund. Since that the start of this cooperation more than 1,500 children and their parents have flown at special rates to medical facilities. Last year alone UTair transported Gift of Life fund patients and their chaperones from Fergana, Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, Yoshkar-Ola, Vladikavkaz, Kurgan, Nizhnevartovsk, Dushanbe, Novosibirsk, Nalchik, Magas, Belgorod, Ulyanovsk and Lviv.

UTair Aviation is the core enterprise of UTair Group consisting of companies performing aircraft operations with fixed and rotary wing aircraft as well as enterprises offering MRO, personnel training, flight services and air transportation sales services. The Group includes UTair-Express, UTair - Helicopter Services, Turuhan, Vostok Airlines, Helisur, UTair Europe, UTair South Africa, UTair India, TS-Technik, UTair-Engineering, Ural Aviation Services, UTG and other enterprises. In 2014 UTair Group aircraft transported 11,204,598 passengers to more than 110 destinations, including 50 unique destinations.

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