Second try: Ryanair confirms plans to launch flights from Ukraine in autumn

Ryanair's Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer and Company Secretary Juliusz Komorek says Ukraine will become a new destination for Ryanair, having confirmed the company's plans to launch flights in autumn 2018.

When asked by a journalist from Poland's Fly4free publication whether there is a country where Ryanair will soon appear, he said that such a country is located to the east of Poland, and obviously, this refers to Ukraine, Ukraine's Center for Transport Strategies (CTS) reported.

Read alsoRyanair to launch flights from Ukraine in autumn – infrastructure ministerFurther, the Ryanair official was asked if he confirms the statement made by Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan that the air carrier would launch flights to the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Lviv as early as this autumn. Komorek answered that the deadline is real. He also noted the details are being agreed upon.

Concerning future flights to/from Ukraine, Komorek noted that they would not coincide with those announced in the spring of 2017 when Ryanair flights were first announced in Ukraine. He said that the schedule would be changed, but the flights from Ukraine to Poland would be launched for sure.

As was earlier reported, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said that Europe's largest low-cost air carrier Ryanair would start its flights from Ukraine's largest state-owned international airport Boryspil and Danylo Halytskyi International Airport "Lviv" in the fall of 2018.

"They [Ryanair] will launch flights in the autumn of 2018 from the Boryspil and Lviv airports. I am sure they will," the minister said.

Read alsoItaly's Ernest Airlines to launch 3 flights from Kyiv, Lviv in 2018He also noted that the official presentation of the Ryanair flights would be held in the coming weeks.

As UNIAN reported earlier, on March 15, Europe's largest low-cost air carrier, Ryanair, announced the opening from October 30, 2017, of 11 flights from Kyiv and Lviv.

On July 10, Boryspil CEO Pavlo Ryabikin said that signing a contract with Ryanair could inflict annual damage to the airport totaling some UAH 2 billion in under-received profit. He called the contract with Ryanair financially unfavorable for the company and refused to sign it until the airport's requirements were taken into account.

On July 10, Ryanair announced their withdrawal from Ukraine due to non-compliance by Boryspil officials with agreements previously reached with the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.