On October 11, 2017 UVT Aero performed the first international charter flight to Karaganda (Kazakhstan).

Note that on September 14, 2017, the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) issued to UVT Aero admission to international flights. From this day the airline obtained the right to fly outside the Russian Federation.

Before getting the admission to international flights the new airline must fly two years in the Russian airspace. In accordance with the requirements of the current air legislation, JSC UVT Aero performed domestic flights for 2 years. Recall, the first flight was performed on July 17, 2015 on the route Bugulma-Moscow (Domodedovo)-Bugulma.

The general director of the airline Petr Trubaev stressed that the opening of international flights is the next stage of the development of air traffic between the Republic of Tatarstan and other cities and countries. Consequently, more opportunities for tourism development and cooperation in various fields are opened.

It is remarkable that the first international flight was performed for the Almetyevsk Hockey Club "Neftyanik". The Tatarstan team departed on a new branded plane from the airport "Begishevo" at 15:00. The UVT Aero's aircraft Bombardier CRJ-200 is branded with the symbols of the Almetyevsk hockey team "Neftyanik" which plays in the Major hockey league.

It  is noteworthy that this is the first UVT Aero aircraft painted in a new corporate style and with a livery and logos of the sports team on the body. This first "creative" experience of the airline is the result of cooperation with the Almetyevsk Hockey Club "Neftyanik", and it has no analogue not only in the Major Hockey League, but even in the Continental Hockey League.

Cooperation between the airline and the hockey club lasts for several years. UVT Aero is the official carrier of AHC Neftyanik Almetyevsk.

"Neftyanik" went to 4-game guest series. The team will play with "Saryarka" (12.10), "Torpedo" (14.10), "Rubin" (16.10) and "Zauralye" (18.10). 

The coaches selected 25 hockey players for this trip: goalkeepers Golubev, Khakimov, Jaroslavlev, defenders Adamchuk, Bolshakov, Sorokin, Jansons, Sumin, Zheleznov, Khamidullin, Ermolaev, strikers Yadroets, Gilmanov, Kurepanov, Shakhvorostov, Bajkeev, Khapov, Skladnichenko, Yemets, Nasybullin, Ljapustin, Kamenev, Lopachuk, Demidov, Ibragimov.

We wish our Tatarstan team "Neftyanik" good luck and victory, and let its own, individually branded aircraft make the hockey club image higher and more popular in the sports world.