Aviakompaniya UTair : UTair to Be Official Carrier for Final Stage of Biathlon World Cup

UTair Aviation will be the official carrier for the final stage of the Biathlon World Cup which will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk from March 19 - 22, 2015.

Immediately after the World Championships, which will be held in Kontiolahti in Finland and conclude on March 16, UTair charter flights will deliver participants to the final stage of the World Cup in the capital of Yugra. UTair will transport more than 400 athletes and coaches of national teams from 44 countries from Joensuu, Finland to Khanty-Mansiysk aboard Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The return flight to Joensuu and Munich will take place on March 23.

In addition, at the numerous requests of biathlon fans, UTair Aviation will introduce additional flights from Moscow and Yekaterinburg to Khanty-Mansiysk, including return flights, for the duration of the event from March 19 - 22. Tickets for these flights are already available for purchase. We invite everyone to visit the capital of Yugra and to enjoy this impressive sporting spectacle and support the Russian team at the home round of the World Cup.

UTair Aviation has many years of successful cooperation with sports organizations, including the International Biathlon Union (IBU) and the Russian Biathlon Union. UTair's convenient flight schedule and its wide route network are perfectly combined with the geography and the calendar of sporting events. UTair also performs flights for clubs of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and has been the official carrier of the final stage of the Biathlon World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk since 2002. UTair has also been the official carrier of the VTB United League since 2013.

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 CJSC, Turuhan Airlines, UTair-Helicopter services, Turuhan, Vostok Airlines, Katekavia, 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 ones.