Ukrainian airlines (the list will be presented in the article) carry out a huge number of regular flights to all continents every week. Carriers are constantly evolving to make passengers feel comfortable and caring.
How many airlines are registered in the country?
As of June 1, 2016, 77 airlines were registered in Ukraine. If you analyze the list, then not all legal entities are Ukrainian airlines. The list includes educational institutions (State Flight Academy of Ukraine in the city of Kirovograd), state-owned enterprises from the aircraft industry (Antonov State Enterprise, Motor Sich OJSC), flight clubs that do not operate scheduled flights (Kharkiv Aero Club named after Grizodubova). About 10 companies actually carry passengers. The largest airlines in Ukraine are Ukraine’s International Airlines, Aerosvit and Dniproavia.
UIA flights
This carrier makes both international and domestic flights in Ukraine. The company delivers passengers from Kiev ( Boryspil Airport ) to Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Kharkov). Flights to these cities are carried out almost daily 2-3 times. Air travel has one big advantage compared to traveling by train or bus - efficiency. The fact is that the average duration of a flight to each of the cities of the country does not exceed 70-80 minutes, and a trip by land transport will take at least 7-8 hours, or even more. The flight will cost the passenger, of course, several times more expensive, but this is not a factor for those people who care not about price, but about comfort and efficiency.
UIA-Ukraine Airlines has organized flights to all continents. The most popular destinations for passengers today are Kiev-Western Europe, Kiev-the Middle East and Kiev-CIS. The company is constantly evolving. For example, in 2013 new flights were introduced to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Athens, Baku, Vilnius, Warsaw, Nizhnevartovsk, Yekaterinburg, Munich, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Sochi. From Boryspil direct flights can be reached in almost every European capital. In addition, UIA performs a number of routes to the largest hub airports in the world to transfer passengers to other flights.
Dniproavia Airlines
The carrier from Dnepropetrovsk is currently considered the second largest flying company in the country. At the beginning of 2013, the company experienced difficult times when all scheduled flights were closed, but with an improvement in the situation, transportation gradually resumed. First, Dniproavia returned two domestic flights to the transport market: Dnepropetrovsk-Boryspil and Boryspil-Ivano-Frankivsk. The liners made their first flights on these routes on February 7, 2013. Gradually, the company was again able to expand the geography of its flights. A year later, in 2014, Dniproavia flights made it possible to reach Dubai, Yerevan, Baku, Batumi, Moscow, Tbilisi, Vienna, and Istanbul.
The most optimal directions:
- the capitals of the CIS countries;
- popular tourist destinations;
- domestic flights to Kiev, Ivano-Frankivsk.
Liquidated Airlines of Ukraine (list)
Today, air transportation is not a very profitable business, because plane tickets are expensive and not all citizens of Ukraine are able to pay for a flight. Therefore, the country needs only a few airports that will provide flights abroad and a number of domestic flights. In recent years, several airlines have been liquidated in Ukraine:
- Lviv Airlines;
- "Ukraine Airlines";
- Wizz Air Ukraine Airlines;
- Aerosvit.
Of course, this is not a complete list of liquidated Ukrainian airlines.
Lviv Airlines was established in 1993. It was a regional airline, which was based in Lviv. Due to the unprofitability of flights in 2011, the company withdrew from the air transportation market.
The company Wizz Air Ukraine Airlines as a subsidiary of the Hungarian carrier existed from 2008 to 2015. It was liquidated due to administrative restructuring in the parent company.
The Aerosvit company has been operating in the passenger air transportation market for quite some time (from 1994 to 2012). The reason for the cessation of activity was bankruptcy. For almost this reason, the state company Ukraine Airlines has stopped working.
At present, the air transportation market in Ukraine is in a state of deep crisis, therefore the number of carriers is rapidly decreasing. Ukrainian airlines (list above), despite the difficult situation, are trying to develop and offer their customers the best flight conditions.