UTair Ukraine, Wizz Air Ukraine and Air Onix airlines have obtained the right to operate some new routes, the State Aviation Service of Ukraine has told Interfax-Ukraine.
The service said that the decision to issue the assignments was made at a meeting of the license commission of the State Aviation Service on March 14, 2013.
UTair Ukraine obtained assignments for the Kyiv-Belgrade, Kyiv-Tallinn, Kyiv-Sofia, Kyiv-Bucharest, Kyiv-Riga, Kyiv-Stockholm, Kyiv-Copenhagen, Donetsk-Barcelona, Kyiv-Barcelona, Odesa-Kaliningrad, Donetsk-St.Petersburg and Kharkiv-St. Petersburg routes.
Wizz Air Ukraine obtained assignments for the Kyiv-Dubai, Kyiv-Moscow, Kyiv-St. Petersburg, Kyiv-Bucharest, Kyiv-Vilnius, Kyiv-Sofia, Donetsk-Kutaisi and Kharkiv-Kutaisi routes.
Earlier AeroSvit airline operated the said routes, while Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) operates them now.
Air Onix Airline obtained assignments for the Kyiv-Barcelona, Kyiv-Stockholm, Kyiv-Riga, Simferopol-Riga, Simferopol-Bratislava, Kyiv-Moscow, Kyiv-St. Petersburg, Kyiv-Kaliningrad, Simferopol-Kaliningrad, Simferopol-Novosibirsk, Simferopol-Tyumen, Simferopol-Ufa, Simferopol-Krasnoyarsk, Simferopol-Kazan and Simferopol-Yekaterinburg routes.
In addition, the State Aviation Service issued assignments to Aviatrans K for the Kyiv-Barcelona route and Motor Sich Airline for the Vinnytsia-Moscow route.
UTair-Ukraine was founded in September 2008. Currently UTair-Ukraine performs regular and charter flights abroad using ATR-42, ATR 72-500, Boeing 737-400, and CRJ-200 aircraft. Its main hubs are Kyiv and Luhansk airports.
Wizz Air Ukraine LLC is part of Wizz Air Group. At present, the carrier operates three Airbus-320 aircraft on 17 routes to nine countries.
Air Onix was founded in Simferopol in 2007. At present, the airline’s fleet includes three Boeing 737-300/500 aircraft. Its main hub is Simferopol international airport.