Turkmenistan: president dissatisfied with local airlines’ development

Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers recalled that he had earlier given instructions concerning the development of local airlines, the Turkmen government said in a message. He expressed dissatisfaction with the management of Turkmenistan Airlines in meeting the needs of the country’s population in air transportation and noted that…

Ukraine: UIA denies financial relations with PrivatBank

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), the country’s largest air carrier, has refuted any financial relations with PrivatBank (Dnipro). According to UIA, PrivatBank board chairman Oleksandr Shlapak in an interview with the Ekonomichna Pravda edition published on March 9, argued that all financial and budgetary operations of UIA had allegedly been outsourced to the bank. “We…