On March 31, Latvian airline airBaltic launched the second summer route connecting Riga and Stuttgart, Germany. In addition, airBaltic has also started flights between Riga and Lviv, Ukraine. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic, comments: “Our business strategy Destination 2025 foresees even growth of our destination network. We will continue to increase the number…
Uzbekistan Railways is implementing a new project to modernize the Andijan-Sawai-Khanabad railway and organize passenger intercity train traffic there. The project provides for the modernization of the railway section with a length of over 50 kilometers, as well as straightening parts of the track, reconstruction of artificial structures, modernization of alarm systems and telecommunications, construction…
FlyArystan, a low-cost airline, has announced the sales start for its first flight en route Almaty-Taraz slated for May 1, the company’s press service reports. The one-way ticket cost starts at KZT 4,999, including passenger charges. The flight duration is 60 minutes. The daily flights will be operated by Airbus A320. FlyArystan is expected to…
Ukrainian SkyUp Airlines will launch flights to the Croatian city of Pula on June 15. “SkyUp Airlines will fly to Croatia every Saturday starting from June 15,” SkyUp Airlines reports on Facebook. It is also noted that the price of a roundtrip ticket (Kyiv – Pula – Kyiv) without luggage starts from UAH 4,336. The…
The opening of Ryanair flights from Kharkiv Airport is the result of lengthy talks Ukraine’s Kharkiv International Airport has begun cooperation with Europe’s major discount air carrier, Ireland’s Ryanair, by launching new international flights from the city of Kharkiv. “We are pleased that Kharkiv Airport has become the third Ukrainian airport for Ryanair. In 2019,…
The volume of freight turnover of railway transport in Azerbaijan is planned to be increased to 5.3 ton-kilometers in 2019, or by 17.7% YoY. According to government forecasts, the turnover will increase in subsequent years. As such, this figure will stand at 5.9 billion ton-kilometers in 2020, 6.6 billion ton-kilometers in 2021, and 7.4 billion…
The results of two months of 2019 show that the revenues of air transport enterprises in Kazakhstan rose by 21.2% YoY and reached 49.7 billion tenge ($1.3 billion). The share of air transport in the transportation industry as a whole was 10.8%; in 2018 the share of airlines was slightly lower – 10.2%. The main…