Utair introduces comprehensive measures against coronavirus
Utair Airlines takes large-scale comprehensive sanitary measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Starting February 1, Utair will perform weekly disinfection of all aircraft on international and domestic flights. Besides, the airline has started an unscheduled disinfection of all aircraft that Chinese nationals used over the past 7 days. This will ensure that the aircraft interior space will be safe for passengers. Moreover, Utair replaced wet wipes with antibacterial wipes, ordinary soap — with bactericidal soap, and daily cleans aircraft using special disinfectants as extra preventive measures. All the products used are hypoallergenic and approved for use on aircraft.
Utair will start providing passengers on all international flights with medical face mask starting February 4. The airline operates such flights fr om Moscow, Surgut, and Ufa.
Sanitary measures at airports and on-board catering facilities will be strengthened. The airline carries out extra disinfection in rooms where blankets and pillows are stored, and uses a reinforced disinfectant to wash them. Operating hours of bactericidal lamps will be increased and additional sanitization of equipment, dishware, and cutlery will be introduced in production facilities wh ere on-board meals are prepared. The control over food waste disposal will be strengthened on all international flights.
If a potentially infected passenger is detected on board, the aircraft will be sent to a special sanitary parking lot at the airport and a full range of anti-epidemic measures will be carried on board.
Utair is the most punctual airline in Russia in 2018. According to the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) rating, the company performed 99.18% of flights on schedule or with minimum delays up to 2 hours. In 2018, passenger traffic increased by 8.7%, to 8 million passengers.
Utair flies to 150 destinations, more than 60 of which are available only to passengers of the company. Utair has hubs throughout the country: in Ufa, Ekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Mineralnye Vody, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Sochi, Surgut, Tyumen, and Khanty-Mansiysk. The main transfer point is Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, which offers more than 160 Utair flights daily.