Kyiv Boryspil International Airport

The ambitious Ukrainian carrier is launching more routes to Istanbul and Larnaca.

The two Ukrainian carriers are planning to expand their networks over the coming weeks.

From March 28, Vilnius flights will be brought into the arrangement.

The carrier’s summer schedule includes new routes to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi and the Black Sea vacation hotspot of Batumi.

Twenty-three new routes are planned for the summer season, including flights from Antalya to Beirut, Ljubljana and Tel Aviv.

Kyiv is one of two destinations in the Ukraine that will be accessible nonstop from Łódź.

More destinations are set to be added to the Ukrainian LCC’s network this summer.

The Czech Republic's second-largest city is set to be served nonstop from the Ukrainian capital.

Ukrainian airline approved to start almost a dozen new routes this year as part of plans to increase its network to more than 60 destinations.

The Ukrainian carrier hopes to start flying between Kyiv and New York.

Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Los Angeles are among destinations returning.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week: RwandAir swaps Gatwick for Heathrow, Ukraine International Airlines returns to New York via Iceland, and Alaska Airlines adds another sun route from Los Angeles.

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Ukrainian carrier SkyUp Airlines is broadening its international network from next month while at the same time planning to increase its market share at home.

As part of Copenhagen Airport's Route Exchange membership, Routesonline takes a look at three significant routes to have been launched from Denmark's capital in recent years.

This week: Swiss resumes service to Ukraine and AirAsia plans to add a new route to China from Kuching.

This week: British Airways returns to the Seychelles after a 13-year absence and Avior Airlines picks up Caracas-Bogota route.

This week: Ukraine International targets the outbound leisure market from Kiev and Air Canada continues to build Montreal routes.

While its rivals Emirates Airlines and Etihad Airways are looking closely at the sustainability of their business models, Qatar Airways shows no signs of slowing its incredible network growth and surprised guests at this year’s Arabian Travel Market in Dubai this week by revealing an additional 12 new markets that should see the airline service in 2018.

Fast-growing Ukrainian airport wants to build upon recent growth success, CEO says

The aircraft, which is configured with 86 seats and will be leased between the busy summer months of June and September 2016, will allow Air Serbia to expand its flight network with non-stop flights to Hamburg in Germany and Kiev in Ukraine being introduced from its Belgrade base. In addition, the aircraft will be deployed on the carrier’s existing Belgrade – Sofia route.

An official signing ceremony for the deal took place at the US Department of State on July 14, 2015 with Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Catherine A Novelli joining Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarsky in signing the formal Open Skies agreement.

Ukraine is a huge market opportunity, but for many carriers there have been notable restrictions on air access. Negotiations on a full EU-Ukraine open skies agreement had reached a critical stage over the past couple of years, but have fallen on a more regional structure. This has initially seen the Ukraine Infrastructure Ministry allow the western Ukrainian city of Lviv to be linked directly to European Union destinations without any restrictions as a trial run.

As Ukraine’s leading carrier, UIA is playing an important role in developing air traffic from both the country’s capital Kiev and other cities across Ukraine.