OREANDA-NEWS. UTair Aviation website www.utair.ru has been ranked one of the fastest online retailer websites in Russia by IT company 1C-Bitrix.

The research was conducted from March 25 through April 10, 2014. Two data centers located in Moscow and St. Petersburg sent requests to the main pages of selected websites. 1C-Bitrix measured the loading speed of the full page without internal elements. The final results were defined by an overall average loading time.

The UTair Aviation website proved to be one of the fastest, ranking in the top three with just a 0.049 second average loading time.

Vitaly Pozdnyakov, director for strategic development at UTair, remarked that loading time is a vital quality for any website as it directly affects sales volume. UTair employees constantly work to optimize the company's website to facilitate the purchase of affordable tickets with speed, comfort and safety.

UTair Aviation is the core enterprise of UTair Group and consists of companies performing aircraft operations with fixed and rotary wing aircraft as well asenterprises offering MRO, personnel training, flight services and air transportation sales services. The Group includes UTair-Express, UTair-Ukraine, UTair-Helicopter services, UTair-Cargo, Turuhan Airlines, Vostok Airlines, Helisur, UTair Europe, UTair South Africa, and UTair India as well as UTair-Technik, UTair-Engineering and other enterprises.

UTair Group headquarters are located in Surgut. The airline operates more than 150 fixed wing aircraft and 350 helicopters. In 2013 UTair aircraft transported 10,413,803 passengers, 10.96% more than in 2012. UTair Group passenger turnover demonstrated YoY growth of 15.7% in 2013 and achieved a combined 18,591,544,700 PKM. The UTair helicopter fleet logged a total of 165,519 flight hours in 2013.