Latvian airline Air Baltic plans to resume flights to Kyiv, Lviv, and Odesa as soon as Ukraine's airspace is reopened, the airline said on March 26 after a visit to Kyiv Boryspil airport, UNN reports .
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The skies over Ukraine have been closed to civil aviation since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, meaning that passenger transportation to and from the country is only possible by road or rail.
Air Baltic CEO Martin Gauss said that on March 25, he met with Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov at Boryspil, along with Boryspil's management and the Lviv airport team.
The Air Baltic delegation inspected the airport's infrastructure, equipment, and the possibility of resuming flights.
Impressive preparations have been made, and Boryspil International Airport has been renovated and is once again ready to welcome millions of passengers
We have presented our plans to reconnect Ukraine with the world by air as soon as the airspace is open and safe. Air Baltic will contribute to the restoration of Ukrainian aviation
Boryspil airport reported that Air Baltic "plans to launch flights to Kyiv, Lviv, and then to Odesa, connecting these cities with the Baltic capitals and major European cities via Riga.
According to the airport, from 2019 to 2021, Air Baltic operated 3,644 flights from Boryspil, carrying 285,600 passengers.
In July 2023, low-cost airline Ryanair announced plans to return to the Ukrainian market within eight weeks of the reopening of Ukrainian airspace.
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said that his company plans to open 75 routes from Europe to Ukraine after the airspace is recognized as safe.
According to O'Leary, Ryanair was the second largest airline operating in Ukraine before the full-scale invasion, after UIA.
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