REUTERS
Director of the Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise, or UkSATSE, Dmytro Babeychuk says revenue from transit aviation traffic in Ukraine has shrunk from 83% to 20% since the beginning of hostilities in Donbas and the occupation of Crimea.
"With the start of the ATO [Anti-Terrorist Operation in Donbas], the transit potential tends to go down to zero. If earlier transit traffic accounted for 83% of our revenue, now it does not exceed 20%," he said at the second Ukrainian Infrastructure Forum in Kyiv on April 20.
At the same time, Babeychuk said, the development of local airlines is a positive trend.
"To date, UIA [Ukraine International Airlines] accounts for 40% in our revenue," he said.
Read alsoUkSATSE reduces air traffic services by 9% in 2016As UNIAN reported earlier, UkSATSE in 2016 reduced the number of serviced flights by 8.8%, to 214,000 operations.
UNIAN memo. The Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise (UkSATSE) is authorized by the state regulatory agency of civil aviation to provide air navigation services in Ukraine.
UkSATSE includes the Ukrainian Airspace Management and Planning Centre (Ukraerocenter), the Aeronautical Information Services (AIS), UkSATSE Airline, the UkSATSE training and certification center, and six regional divisions.