OREANDA-NEWS. April 21, 2011. Ukrainian Airlines, based at Boryspil Airport (Kyiv), will launch air carriages between Ukraine’s capital and Novosibirsk, Russia’s third largest city in terms of population. During the period from April to June 2011 Ukrainian largest air carrier will gradually increase flights frequency on the route from 2 up to 5 flights per week. AeroSvit’s plans further increase in the frequency of flights to Tolmachevo Airport (Novosibirsk).

As soon as in June-August AeroSvit intends to increase flights’ load factor on the new line up to 70%-80%, in particular due to transit passenger traffic flows’ growth to Novosibirsk via Kyiv.

Via Boryspil Airport, the Ukrainian carrier’s route network will connect Novosibirsk with Ukraine’s regional centers and destinations of AeroSvit’s international route network, including Hamburg, Dusseldorf, London, Prague, Karlovy Vary, Riga, Vilnius, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Kaliningrad, Sophia, Istanbul, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, New York, Toronto and other cities.

This new route’s launch confirms AeroSvit’s status as the largest air carrier between Ukraine and Russia. Novosibirsk will become the sixth Russian city, to which the company provides air carriages.

In summer season 2011 AeroSvit also performs scheduled flights from Kyiv and some other Ukrainian cities to Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad. Besides that, AeroSvit performs flights from Ukraine’s capital to Nizhnevartovsk and operates the route Kyiv — Rostov-on-Don jointly with Donavia (Russian air carrier).
In the beginning of May 2011 the Ukrainian carrier is going open flights from Kyiv to one more city in the Russian Federation — Krasnodar.