REUTERS
Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has announced that a national airline can be set up in the country's segment of low-cost air transportation this year.
"I hope a national airline will be established in the segment of low-cost air transportation this year. The talks [on its creation] are under way. Now they are proceeding well. Of course, it's too early to talk about details before we put our signatures, but there is no doubt the talks will end successfully," Omelyan told a Ukrainian TV channel.
He noted that the negotiations are also being conducted with foreign airlines on the launch of flights to Ukraine.
Read alsoRyanair to launch Lviv – Memmingen flight in September"I would very much like the two airlines to start flights to Ukraine from next year ... I had talks with an Italian airline, and their air tickets are even cheaper than the ones for an [intercity] bus," Omelyan said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Europe's largest low-cost airline Ryanair on March 15 announced the launch of flights from Kyiv and Lviv starting October 30, 2017. However, due to the high demand for tickets, the airline announced the shift in the schedule for certain flights, in particular, from Lviv to Berlin, to earlier dates in September 2017. Ryanair then clarified that the flights would be performed from Kyiv, namely from Boryspil international airport, while the future flights from Kyiv international airport (Zhulyany) were considered as well.