Air Urga (3N, Kirovohrad) is planning to lease, with an option to buy, three CRJ200s formerly with UTair-Ukraine (Kyiv Boryspil) airline CEO Aleksandr Galinsky has announced. The aircraft - UR-UTX (cn 7119), UR-UTY (cn 7122), and UR-UTZ (cn 7121) - would mark the arrival of the carrier's first jets.
According to the ch-aviation aircraft database, all three Bombardier Aerospace (BBA, Montréal Trudeau) jets are currently parked in Ukraine.
Galinsky told Ukraine's Wing Aero News that Air Urga is also considering adding an additional "two or three" Saab 340Bs to its current fleet of nine turboprops given their growing popularity.
Owned by the State Property Fund of Ukraine (51%) and American International Consulting Corp (43.5%), Air Urga operates scheduled passenger flights between Kyiv Igor Sikorsky and Lviv as well as charter flights throughout Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East using a fleet that also includes ten An-26s, seven An-24RVs, and a Cessna (single turboprop) 172R. It operates several of its aircraft on behalf of the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNO, Brindisi).
