Russia’s airline, UTair Aviation, plans to sell air tickets without definite time of departure at half price, Russian newspaper Kommersant reports.
Passenger who will purchase such tickets will be informed of the time and number of the flight by SMS or email on the eve of the flight.
The first such tickets will be sold for flights from Moscow to Tyumen and Rostov-on-Don.
UTair Aviation sales manager Pavel Permyakov says this tariff is introduced of the purpose of increasing passenger traffic
UTair Aviation also operates flights to Tajikistan.
UTair Aviation is a Russian airline with its head office at Khanty-Mansiysk Airport while its main base is at Roshchino International Airport near Tyumen. It operates scheduled domestic and some international passenger services, scheduled helicopter services as well as extensive charter flights with fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters in support of the oil and gas industry across Western Siberia.
The Aeroflot Tyumen Directorate was set up in February 1967 to meet the transport requirements of the fast-growing oil and gas industry undergoing development in Western Siberia. In the wake of the break-up of the Aeroflot organization, Tyumenaviatrans Aviation (TAT) was formed in 1991 to replace the Aeroflot Tyumen Directorate. TAT adopted the name of UTair in early 2003. The airline is owned by Khanty Mansiysk District administration (23%), Surgut City administration (19%), Russian shareholders and companies (33%), the Russian Federation (2%), and private foreign investors (20%).
In November 2014, UTair faced financial difficulties and was unable to make a bond payment. In April 2015, UTair announced it was to severely cut down their fleet by 44 aircraft due to their ongoing financial struggle.
In December 2015, it has been confirmed that UTair Aviation sold its leisure subsidiary Azur Air to Turkish tourism company Anex Tourism Group, which also bought UTair-Ukraine a few weeks earlier.
