Lviv International Airport

A Ryanair delegation to Kyiv unveiled plans to invest rapidly in rebuilding Ukraine's aviation industry once the war ends.

The ULCC says it is adjusting its point-to-point network to 'maximally mitigate this impact by redistributing capacity.'

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

The carrier is using new Boeing 737 MAX 8 200s on the routes.

After 15 years of negotiations, the EU and Ukraine have finally reached an agreement on a common aviation area.

CEO Dmytro Seroukhov said the airline intends to grow its flight program next year.

The ambitious Ukrainian carrier is launching more routes to Istanbul and Larnaca.

The two Ukrainian carriers are planning to expand their networks over the coming weeks.

The Ukrainian startup has received approval to launch a string of routes from the country’s capital Kyiv.

The carrier’s summer schedule includes new routes to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi and the Black Sea vacation hotspot of Batumi.

Kyiv is one of two destinations in the Ukraine that will be accessible nonstop from Łódź.

More destinations are set to be added to the Ukrainian LCC’s network this summer.

Ukrainian airline approved to start almost a dozen new routes this year as part of plans to increase its network to more than 60 destinations.

Seven new routes are being launched from Doncaster Sheffield Airport following Wizz Air’s latest expansion.

Ukrainian carrier SkyUp Airlines is broadening its international network from next month while at the same time planning to increase its market share at home.

Competition on routes between Italy and Ukraine is set to heighten over the coming months as more low-cost seats enter the fast-growing market.

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Wizz Air has revealed plans to station three Airbus A320s at Dortmund Airport (DTM) in Germany–its third new base announcement in three days.

Thirteen more routes have been added to Wizz Air’s summer schedule, taking the total number of new services being launched by the Central and Eastern Europe ULCC close to the 150 mark.

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Wizz Air is to open a new base at Lviv in Ukraine and launch seven new routes from the country.

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Low-cost giant Ryanair is to debut in Ukraine with flights to Kiev from four European cities, while Central and Eastern European low-cost airline specialist Wizz Air is to further expand its activities in the country with growing summer 2017 operations from both Kiev and Lviv.

Ukraine is a huge market opportunity, but for many carriers there have been notable restrictions on air access. Negotiations on a full EU-Ukraine open skies agreement had reached a critical stage over the past couple of years, but have fallen on a more regional structure. This has initially seen the Ukraine Infrastructure Ministry allow the western Ukrainian city of Lviv to be linked directly to European Union destinations without any restrictions as a trial run.