Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Kryklii has said the international air travel may fully resume from 2023. This year Ukraine might reach half of the 2019 passenger traffic volume. Kryklii noted in 2020 Ukraine saw less than a third (28%) of the passenger traffic it had in 2019. At the same time, the minister adds, expectations and…
According to a study by Oxford Research Baltics, the losses the aviation industry suffered in 2020 compose 19.4% of the total expected GDP decline in Latvia. However, the total influence, including indirect and induced effect, reaches 43% of the total GDP decline, as reported by Latvian Aviation Association. Estimates form Oxford Research Baltics showed that…
Financial Police of Kyrgyzstan are checking the fact of unreasonable overpricing of air tickets to Russia, press service of the state agency reports. Employees of the State Service for Combatting Economic Crimes (Financial Police) made a test purchase of Bishkek – Moscow air ticket at one of the air ticket offices for 67,800 soms, where…
NyxAir that started operating passenger flights between Tallinn and Kuressaare late last year reports growing passenger figures and a full plane on weekends. Almost one third of seats were occupied on average during the last weeks of 2020. CEO Jaanus Ojamets said that while January figures were not in yet, average seat occupancy for December…
SkyUp Airlines plans to launch flights on the Kyiv-Ostrava-Kyiv (Ukraine – the Czech Republic – Ukraine) route on April 26, the airline’s press service reports. “Now flights are scheduled three times a week: on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Tickets are already available on the official website,” the report reads. Flights to Ostrava will complement the…
At all airports in Ukraine, check-in for SkyUp Airlines flights will begin 2.5 hours and end 45 minutes before scheduled departure. Boarding will close 20 minutes before departure, the airline’s press service reports. “The update comes into force on January 20. Currently, check-in at Ukrainian airports starts 2 hours and ends 45 minutes before scheduled…
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia in the near future intends to launch trains to the territory bordering the temporarily occupied Crimea. Ukraine cannot launch trains to the peninsula yet, JSC Ukrzaliznytsia Board Chairman Volodymyr Zhmak has declared. “We are working on the resumption of railway connection with the territories adjacent to Crimea. Unfortunately, we cannot enter Crimea itself,”…