Ural Airlines with Minar

Ural Airlines has announced the launch of its flight between Moscow and Mumbai four times a week, and has appointed Minar Group as its General Sales Agent for India. This will help position the airline well and create awareness about it in the India market.

Nisha Verma

JSC Ural Airlines, the full-service carrier of the Russian Federation, is all set to launch four-times-a-week operations between Moscow and Mumbai beginning March 30 this year. The brand new A320 Neo aircraft with two-class configuration will operate on the route. In addition, the airline has appointed Minar Travels (India), the airline management services arm of Minar Group, as its General Sales Agent (GSA) for the India market. A spokesperson of Ural Airlines said, “We have selected Minar Travels to position our brand, create awareness of our products and sell our services in this important new market.” According to an official statement, Minar Travels will use its vast experience and liaise for the airline’s sales development in India, including sales, ticketing and direct support services to the travel trade.

With departure from Mumbai at 0540 hrs and arrival in Moscow at 1005 hrs, the airline is offering convenient timings for business travellers, M!CE and tourist groups. Similarly, flights from Moscow will depart at 1920 hrs and arrive in Mumbai at 0435 hrs.

JSC Ural Airlines is one of the fastest growing airlines of the Russian Federation and has aggressive plans to grow in the India market and connect the two important cities while offering seamless connectivity within Russia, including St. Petersburg, and further to Europe (including London via their hub in Moscow). “Minar Travels is happy to be associated with Ural airlines as their exclusive GSA in India. We look forward to a great working association with Ural Airlines and are optimistic of making Ural Airlines opera- tions to India a success,” said Shallin Magoo, Vice President, Minar Travels.