Determined to position itself as Ukraine’s leading domestic carrier, Windrose Airlines is buying eight ATR72-600 turboprops over the next 18 months.

Determined to position itself as Ukraine’s leading domestic carrier, Windrose Airlines is buying eight ATR72-600 turboprops over the next 18 months. Seating 72 passengers, the commuter planes will be used to fly from Kyiv Boryspil to eight cities: Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Kriviy Rih, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Zaporizhia. In addition, Windrose will use fly to these EU cities: Berlin, Bucharest, Burgas, Ljubljana, Sofia and Zagreb. In addition, Windrose plans to add two A320/321 jets to its fleet, Vladimir Kamenchuk, the company CEO, tells the Center for Transportation Strategies. Believed to be controlled by Ihor Kolomoisky, the airline flies charters to Egypt, Greece, Italy and Turkey.