At the instruction of the Head of State, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Civil Aviation Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of Kazakhstan and Air Astana are working round the clock to launch FlyArystan low-cost airline. The ticket sales for the carrier’s commercial flights are expected to start on March 29. “Starting from May,…
The Latvian airline AirBaltic will resume flights on the route Riga-Odesa-Riga from March 31, Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze wrote on Facebook. “Latvian airline AirBaltic from March 31 will resume flights on the route Riga-Odesa-Riga. The conference on the renewal of the route was held on March 13,”…
Kyrgyzstan intensifies negotiations on China – Kyrgyzstan – Uzbekistan railway construction project, the President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov said at a meeting with heads of diplomatic missions. Earlier, Foreign Minister Chingiz Aidarbekov said that the route of the railway as a whole was almost approved. The head of state instructed to continue work on construction…
Vienna, Rome, and Prague were the top three in demand directions from Georgia’s Kutaisi International Airport in February, announces United Airports of Georgia. After these three cities come Athens and Memmingen. In total Kutaisi Airport serviced 617,342 passengers in 2018, up by 52.5% YoY. United Airports of Georgia reported that 95% of Kutaisi airport passengers…
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA) decision to ban Boeing 373 Max aircraft from its airspace will not directly impact Estonian flights. “Not a single Estonian airline uses this type of aircraft,” Kaupo Toodu, director of the Flight Operations Department of the Estonian Civil Aviation Administration (Estonian CAA). Toomas Uibo, director of marketing and…
Ukrzaliznytsia in 2019 will launch a pilot project for the transfer to concession of Mykolaiv and Khmelnytsky railway stations, chairman of the company Yevhen Kravtsov has said. “We are already launching a pilot project on the concession of two stations, Mykolaiv and Khmelnytsky, this year. We are working to involve the EBRD and the World…
On March 12, Ukraine International Airlines welcomed to its fleet a medium-haul Embraer-195. The plane received the registration number UR-EMG and became the 6th aircraft of the Embraer brand in the UIA fleet. The aircraft accommodates 116 passengers in a two-class cabin configuration, i.e. Business and Economy Class. Therefore, passengers will be able to enjoy…