OREANDA-NEWS. August 19, 2014. UIA is deeply concerned with destructive actions of the Russian authorities and their controversial stand on transit flights of Ukrainian airlines banned from transit over the Russian territory.

Russia’s unilateral actions of banning flights force UIA to significantly lengthen its air routes from Ukraine to the East. This will lead to increase in operating costs by 15-20%, as well as to flight delays, which will cause significant discomfort to passengers.

According to the Main Air Traffic Management Centre of the Unified Air Traffic Management System of the Russian Federation, the Russian authorities refuse processing UIA’s application to perform flights from Kiev to Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan through permitted entry points to the airspace of the Russian Federation.

Because UIA is forced to operate a number of flights on lengthened routes, starting 18 August 2014 the departure of our flights from Baku , Yerevan , Tbilisi and Bangkok may be re-scheduled to an earlier time. Regarding the Kiev – Astana and Kiev – Almaty service, the departure times from Boryspil Airport as well as from Astana and Almaty Airports will be corrected.