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Ural Airlines

Logo: Ural Airlines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons³

Airline of Russia

Ural Airlines (Russian: Ура́льские авиали́нии, Ural’skiye avialinii) is an airline based in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, that operates scheduled and chartered domestic and international flights out of Koltsovo International Airport. In 2018, the company transported nine million passengers.² It was founded by Sergey Skuratov.¹ Its chief executive is Sergey Skuratov (since 1993).¹ Its revenue was ₽66.7 billion in 2017.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1993Founded¹

HeadquartersYekaterinburg¹
Founded inYekaterinburg¹
Websitewww.uralairlines.ru

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The story

Founded by Sergey Skuratov in 1993, in Yekaterinburg.¹

Leadership

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Chief executive

Sergey Skuratov1993–now

1995200020052010201520202025

FounderSergey Skuratov¹
Chief executive officerSergey Skuratov 1993 to now¹

Products and brands

Destinations

As of November 2023, the airline serves 11 countries on 138 routes.

Codeshare agreements

Ural Airlines has codeshare agreements with the following airlines:

Fleet

Current fleet

As of August 2025, Ural Airlines operates an all-Airbus A320 family fleet composed of the following aircraft:

Fleet development

Ural Airlines also started considering updating its fleet with newer Airbus A320neo family or Boeing 737 Next Generation narrow-body aircraft and is still considering purchasing Airbus A330 wide-body aircraft. It took delivery of its first Airbus A320neo in August 2019. The airline also considered purchasing Irkut MC-21s, but the plans were probably withdrawn. In 2022, Air Lease Corporation are seeking to recover one A320neo and one A321ceo, as the lease payments are not being made. In December 2023 an agreement was reached with leasing company AerCap to buy 19 Airbus planes, with help from the Russian National Wealth Fund.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ural Airlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

Revenue over time

As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.

Revenue

201766.7B RUB¹

Controversies and legal

Accidents and incidents

On 15 August 2019, Ural Airlines Flight 178, an Airbus A321 registered as VQ-BOZ, was scheduled to fly from Zhukovsky International Airport to Simferopol. 226 passengers and 7 crew were on board. The aircraft suffered a bird strike shortly after takeoff and made an emergency landing in a cornfield less than 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) from the runway with its landing gear up. Although 74 passengers sought medical treatment, only one major injury occurred, and all passengers survived.

On 12 September 2023, Ural Airlines Flight 1383, an Airbus A320 registered as RA-73805, was scheduled to fly from Sochi International Airport to Omsk Tsentralny Airport. 159 passengers were on board. On approach into Omsk a hydraulic failure was reported. The aircraft successfully landed in a field near Kamenka Village in Ubinsky District, 180 km from Novosibirsk. No injuries or fatalities were reported.

Passenger fraud incidents

In August 2023, a scandal broke out when wider public learned that one of the airline employees of Tatar ethnicity was for several years extorting money from passengers. The employee had used various excuses, particularly that passengers had to pay extra for luggage that was nevertheless undersize and underweight. He did not commit the fraud only against passengers from Tatarstan and North Caucasus regions as he had stated on his social media accounts.