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AeroSvit, Windrose and Ukraine International Airlines (all based in Kyiv) from January 10 to January 16, 2013 organized 34 additional flights to take back 2,500 passengers from and to Prague, Tbilisi, Astana, Baku, Sofia, Larnaca, Yerevan, Kaliningrad and Minsk. 

The press service of AeroSvit Airline has reported that the State Aviation Service of Ukraine provided aid in organizing the flights.

“Thanks to ensuring there are flights from cities where AeroSvit has stopped flying, the company managed to prevent the accumulation of passengers in Ukrainian and foreign airports. In addition, a large number of the passengers with AeroSvit tickets are delivered on regular flights of partner airlines,” reads the press release.

AeroSvit until January 31, 2013 is to continues performing its own regular flights to New York, Bangkok, Beijing, Tashkent, Dnipropetrovsk and Ivano-Frankivsk and until January 23, 2013 to Ho Chi Minh City and Goa.

As reported, AeroSvit from January 8 to January 14 performed more than 100 flights, transporting 12,383 passengers from other airports.

AeroSvit was created in 1994. It is based at Boryspil airport in Kyiv. It previously served 80 international destinations in 34 countries, and provided services to the largest cities of Ukraine. Its fleet consisted of 28 Boeing aircraft, including 20 medium-range Boeing 737s and eight long-haul Boeing 767s. In addition to that, it operated Airbus 320, Airbus 321, Embraer 145, Embraer 190, and ATR-72 aircraft.