Boryspil Airport reaches deal with Ryanair – PM Groysman

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says the Boryspil International Airport succeeded in the latest round of negotiations with Europe's largest low-cost air carrier Ryanair.

"We will expect that the agreement between Boryspil and Ryanair will be signed as early as this week," he said at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on March 21.

According to Groysman, the Boryspil Airport is introducing a new pricing system.

Read alsoUkraine's Infrastructure Minister: Talks with Ryanair succeed, flights to start in autumnAs UNIAN reported earlier, on March 15, 2017, 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, 2017, 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, 2017, Ryanair announced their withdrawal from Ukraine due to non-compliance by Boryspil officials with agreements previously reached with the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.