Kharkiv, March 16 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Utair Ukraine is temporarily reducing the number of Kharkiv-Kyiv-Kharkiv flights from two to one flight a day.
“The flight will not be temporarily performed,” the head of the marketing department of the airline, Volodymyr Katerny, told reporters on Friday.
The company leaves the morning Kyiv-Kharkiv flight (departure at 0720 a.m. on working days and at 0840 a.m. on Saturdays) and flyback in the evening (departure at 0800 p.m.). Temporarily flights from Kyiv to Kharkiv at 1000 a.m. and from Kharkiv to Kyiv at 0500 p.m. are canceled.
“Thanks to the fact that now we reduced frequency we have a chance of opening the new flights to Riga and Vilnius [from Kyiv]. The plane that arrives from Kharkiv to Kyiv does not return back to Kharkiv, but it flies to Europe. In the evening it returns from Europe to Kyiv and flies to [Kharkiv]. I think that it will as convenient as possible for passengers from Kharkiv region… and this will allow Kharkiv passengers to reach neighbor foreign countries with a good flight connection at the Kyiv airport in the morning and have good tariffs,” Katerny said.
He said that the Kyiv-Vilnius-Kyiv route will be opened on March 22, and the Kyiv-Riga-Kyiv flight will be launched in early May. He also said that the airline plans to resume the flight, but he did not disclose the terms.
“Everything depends on the expansion of our fleet. As soon as the new plane is received, the flight will be restored,” he said.
UTair ticket offices said that from March 31, 2013 the suspended Kyiv-Kharkiv-Kyiv flight is on the schedule again.
