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He will take office on Sept 18.
Ukraine's largest air carrier, Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), has appointed former First Deputy Director General of the Boryspil International Airport, Yevhen Dykhne, its new President.
"Yevhen Dykhne has been appointed new president of the company. The company's shareholders have long been analyzing the situation. Dykhne was appointed based on the fact that he has extensive experience and achieved significant results at the Boryspil Airport," Head of the UIA Supervisory Board Aron Mayberg said at a press conference on Sept 9.
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Mayberg says Dykhne, who will take office on Sept 18, received a key task of bringing the company to profitability amid stable development.
At the same time, he added that the resignation from the post of former UIA President Yuriy Miroshnikov is not associated with his poor performance.
"Miroshnikov has been performing well, but some issues have not been resolved. They can be resolved by shrinkng the company. But it will be another enterprise. Miroshnikov worked as president for 15 years. It's too long. The company needs new ideas and fresh blood," Mayberg said.
He says Miroshnikov will remain at UIA at a different position.
According to the decision passed at the shareholders' general meeting, Yuriy Miroshnikov was elected member of the UIA Supervisory Board. He will take up his duties on Sept 13.
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The company's new president, Yevhen Dykhne, has experience in a number of state-owned companies. He was the acting general director at the Boryspil Airport from September 2014 to March 2017. In March 2017, he was appointed first deputy general director.
As UNIAN reported earlier, in 2018, UIA increased its passenger flow by 15%, up to 8 million people.
Since the launch of its first flight, which took place 25 years ago, UIA has transported more than 42 million passengers and performed about 400,000 flights.
UNIAN memo. UIA was founded in 1992. The airline connects Ukraine with over 50 capitals and key cities of Europe, Asia, America, Africa, the Middle East, and CIS countries and provides connections with its international partners' flights to over 3,000 other destinations worldwide. UIA operates over 1,100 scheduled flights per week. Currently, UIA operates 41 aircraft, including 28 medium-haul Boeing 737 NG aircraft, whose average age is 9.7 years. The average age of UIA fleet is 11.6 years.
UIA hub is the Boryspil International Airport near Kyiv.