Greece's Lumiwings to launch two flights between Italy and Ukraine

Greek-based Lumiwings will launch two new flights between Italy and Ukraine, namely Forli-Odesa (Ukraine)-Forli and Perugia-Odesa-Perugia in June 2021.

Read alsoInternational air travel may fully resume from 2023 – Infrastructure MinisterThat is according to a statement by TAL Aviation Group, which represents the Greek airline's interests in Ukraine, published on its website on January 27.

The flights will be performed twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays, it said.

Background

• Europe's largest budget air carrier Ryanair earlier suspended flights from the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv on 70% of routes until late March 2021.
• In December 2020, Hungarian airlines Wizz Air, the largest discount carrier in Central and Eastern Europe, resumed flights from the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv to 10 European countries, namely Denmark, the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, and Slovakia.

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Lumiwings is a Greek airline company established in Athens in 2015. Earlier, the company operated flights on behalf of other airlines.