UTair Aviation shareholders meet to approve purchase of 10 Boeing 737s
Source:transportweekly 2014-3-25 10:07:00
A special UTair Aviation shareholder meeting has approved the purchase of 10 Boeing 737-800/900 aircraft, part of a contract signed in 2011 for the delivery of forty new 737s, according to Shipping Gazette.
The first was delivered in October, and now the company expects delivery of eight more. All are equipped with CFM56-5B engines and come in single class seating configuration.
Ernst & Young was also approved to serve as the auditor of the financial and operational activities of UTair Aviation.
The UTair Group includes airlines conducting passenger and cargo operations with fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft as well as enterprises offering MRO, personnel training, flight services and air transportation sales services.
UTair Aviation is the group's core enterprise and includes UTair-Express, UTair-Ukraine, UTair-Cargo, UTair-Helicopter services, Turuhan Airlines, Vostok Airlines, Katekavia, Helisur, UTair Europe, UTair South Africa, UTair India, UTair-Technik, UTair-Engineering, Ural Aviation Services, U?air-TG, UTair-Armenia and other enterprises.
UTair group headquarters are located in Surgut, in remote central Russia, 700 kilometres north of Kazakhstan, with subsidiaries in Tyumen, Khanty-Mansyisk, Moscow and other cities.