Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said the national low-cost airline SkyUp will start operating in April 2018.
Hungarian airlines Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe and Ukraine's largest low-cost carrier, will launch Lviv-Gdansk and Lviv-Katowice flights (Poland) starting March 26, 2018, as well as Lviv-Dortmund flight (Germany) from May 21, 2018, according to the air carrier's website.
Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan has told the Obozrevatel news outlet that Ryanair, the Irish-based low-cost air carrier, may not launch its operations in Ukraine in 2017.
The Ukrainian governments plans to turn Hostomel Airport, which is now the base for Antonov Design Bureau and Antonov Airlines, into the home airport for Ukrainian low-cost airlines, according to the government's press service.
The leadership of Ukraine's largest state-owned international airport Boryspil has announced its readiness for audit of the negotiation process with the Irish-based low-cost air carrier, Ryanair, over its economic feasibility and legal correctness, according to the company's press service.
"On its part, the Boryspil Airport is ready for any audit of the negotiation process with Ryanair over economic feasibility and balanced position of the airport’s management, as well as legal correctness and non-discrimination of the airport's other contractors from the position of the economic competition protection legislation," the report said.
Pegasus Airlines has submitted to the State Aviation Service an application for registration as a Ukrainian air carrier, Hromadske reports quoting Deputy Infrastructure Minister Viktor Dovhan as saying.
Europe's largest low-cost air carrier Ryanair will start flights from Lviv to Memmingen (Germany) in September this year, a month earlier than the target, due to the great demand from Ukrainians, according to Ryanair's press service.