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JSX is adding direct flights from Dallas Love Field and Houston William P. Hobby Airport to Odessa Airport-Schlemeyer Field starting Jan. 15.

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

Flights between Abu Dhabi and Moscow Vnukovo will start in December.

The airline is expanding its route map to the Eastern European country with the launch of a second service from Doha.

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

Bees Airline will launch its maiden service to the United Arab Emirates in October.

Nine new routes are being added to the airline’s route map from the Texan airport.

The flag-carriers of Serbia and Turkey have expanded their existing codeshare agreement.

Turkish LCC ventures further into Georgia with new London link.

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

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

From March 28, Vilnius flights will be brought into the arrangement.

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

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

The Greek charter and wet lease specialist aims for a March launch from Forli for scheduled routes.

Athens will become the first destination to be served by the start-up, while a second route to Greece will start next month.

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.

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.

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi will begin operations in October with an initial network of six routes, one of which will compete directly with Etihad and Air Arabia’s newly launched rival.

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More European airlines have outlined how they intend to rebuild their networks over the coming weeks after the mass fleet groundings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A recent attack from the newly appointed Odessa governor and former President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili on the State Aviation Service Administration of Ukraine blaming its chief for using his flight assignment powers to preserve a near-monopolistic grip on the market, while protecting interests of individual oligarchs has resulted in immediate action which could finally bring open skies to Ukraine.

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.

Established in September 1994 under the AirZena brand, the carrier initially provided charter flights to the United Arab Emirates, Italy, China, Egypt, India, Syria and regular scheduled flights to Austria. It was granted national carrier status in November 1999 and latterly the Georgian Airways title has been added.