Biting sanctions: Russia's UTair grounds 40 percent of fleet

[Stratofreighter]

UTair (UT, Khanty-Mansiysk) parent, UTair Aviation, says it will ground 40% of its fleet in 2015 in a bid to cut up to RUB6.5 billion (USD111.4 million) in overheads.

According to an investor prospectus published in conjunction with Raiffeisen Bank last week, the group will retire
twelve A321-200s,
eleven B757-200s,
six B737-800s,
two B767-200s,
all fifteen of its CRJ-200s
and six SSJ 100-95s
at UTair-Express from its scheduled services fleet.
The B757s and A321s will instead be operated on charter services instead.

See
http://ch-aviation.com/portal/news/3389 ... -next-year
for more.