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The State Aviation Service of Ukraine has approved all applications of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv) for servicing regular flights from Kyiv to Riyadh (seven flights a week), Dammam and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) three times a week with unlimited duration.

According to a posting on the website of the authority, its commission also permitted UIA to increase the frequency of Kyiv-Tbilisi flight from 17 to 19.

The commission also approved an application of Bukovyna Airline LLC seeking to service charter flights five times a week from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Chernivtsi, Kryvy Rih, Vinnytsia and Rivne to Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada, as well as from Kyiv to Antalya for the period until March 30, 2019.

Jonika Airline LLC was permitted to exploit the air route from Kyiv to Baghdad, Sulaymaniyah and Erbil (Iraq) for servicing regular flights with unlimited duration.