OREANDA-NEWS. May 17, 2011. AeroSvit – Ukrainian Airlines will launch air carriages between Kyiv and Aktau – a port city on the shore of the Caspian Sea, the center of Kazakhstan’s oil and gas industry. On May 20th, 2011 the largest Ukrainian air carrier will commence performing two flights to Aktau per week, on Mondays and Fridays, with flights back on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Duration of flights between the two cities is about three hours.

Flights to Aktau with a transfer at Boryspil, AeroSvit’s base airport, will be available to the passengers from Ukraine’s largest cities as well as from many destinations of the Airlines’ international route network, including New York, Toronto, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, London, Prague, Warsaw, Riga, Vilnius, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Kaliningrad, Minsk, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Tel Aviv, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Athens and Larnaca.

AeroSvit is the largest air carrier between Ukraine and Kazakhstan. On Kyiv-Almaty route the company has been providing services since April 2008, and in April 2009 it also commenced flights between Kyiv and Astana. In summer season 2011 the flights to Almaty and Astana are performed daily. In June 2011 AeroSvit intends to start operations on one more route to Kazakhstan: Kyiv – Kostanai – Kyiv.

AeroSvit - Ukrainian Airlines, established in 1994, as of today is the largest Ukrainian air carrier. It is based at Boryspil Airport (Kyiv).

In 2011 AeroSvit is intending to expand its network up to 80 international destinations in 33 countries. In the present year the Airlines has already mastered new routes to the cities of Europe (London, Krakow, Karlovy Vary) and Russia (Novosibirsk and Krasnodar). In May and June the airline will gradually start flying to Aktau and Kostanai (Kazakhstan), Stuttgart (Germany) and other destination. In autumn three new destinations (Colombo, Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City) will be added to Airlines’ existing long-haul non-stop routes (to New York, Toronto, Beijing, Delhi and Bangkok).  AeroSvit also carries (jointly with its partners) passengers to Ukraine’s largest regional administrative centers, including Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Odesa, Simferopol and Kharkiv.

AeroSvit has its own fleet comprising of 13 medium–haul Boeing 737 and 7 long–haul Boeing 767 aircraft and operates its partners’ aircraft - Airbus 320, Airbus 321, Embraer 145, Embraer 195 and Antonov 148 - on several routes.

Passenger in-flight safety is the permanent priority of the Airlines. In 2009-2010 AeroSvit Airlines confirmed its compliance with the international flight safety standards. The Ukrainian carrier successfully passed regular IOSA - IATA Operational Safety Audit, integrated check to confirm EASA certificate, as well as scheduled check of the inspection committee of the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine.