Vinnytsia handled over 60,000 passengers in 2018, joining the ranks of Ukraine’s 10 busiest airports.

Vinnytsia handled over 60,000 passengers in 2018, joining the ranks of Ukraine’s 10 busiest airports. Last March, UIA started a daily, early morning hop to Kyiv Boryspil. Flying 55 minutes in a 50-seat Embraer commuter jet, passengers skip the 4-hour, 300 km drive to UIA’s air hub. In addition to charter flights to Egypt, Montenegro, and Turkey, Vinnytia has charter flights every September from Israel for Orthodox Jews celebrating Rosh Hashana at Uman, the pilgrimage city a 2.5 hour drive to the east. Helping the airport’s fortunes, Vinnytsia is the political base of President Poroshenko and Prime Minister Groysman.