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Flights from the Ukrainian airports, either Boryspil near Kyiv or in Lviv, may resume in January 2025, said a senior partner at insurance broker Marsh McLennan Crispin Ellison at the Kyiv International Economic Forum. “We have five or six airlines that would like to start operations,” he said. Ellison noted that it would be easier to provide insurance mechanisms for aviation if planes start flying from Lviv, but President Zelenskyy insists that the airport in Boryspil should be opened first.

 At the Boryspil airport, according to preliminary estimates, during the war, the loss of revenue has amounted to UAH 3.5B ($115M), and Ukrposhta has lost more than UAH 500M ($16M), announced the Minister of Infrastructure, Alexander Kubrakov. According to him, in Ukrposhta the fall in imports was 85%, exports 65%, and the fall in domestic parcels was about 80%. As a result, the number of paid utility bills also fell. However, the positive news is that domestic parcels are reviving

Despite announcements from international insurance companies that stopped insuring aircraft for flights over Ukraine due to the high risk of hostilities, Kyiv airports Boryspil and Zhulyany reported that all flights are currently on schedule. According to Boryspil, the airport is operating normally, and all flights are taking place. Only KLM canceled its flights from 13 to 17 February. According to the Zhulyany airport website, all flights are also flying according to schedule.

Kyiv International Airport (Sikorsky) served 1.24 mln passengers. In January-November 2021, Kyiv Airport served 1,243,548 passengers, 85% more than in the same period of 2020, reported cfts.org.ua. During the 11 months of 2020, the passenger traffic of the Kyiv airport served 670,900 passengers. Boryspil Airport served 8.7 mln passengers in 11 months of 2021. Compared to pre-crisis levels (2019), the number of passengers has recovered by 60%.

This includes the traffic of hybrid airlines and low-cost carriers which now account for 40% of the total passenger traffic at Boryspil Airport on international scheduled flights in 2021. In 2017, their share was 3%, and in pre-crisis 2019, 17%. According to the General Director of Boryspil Airport, Alexey Dubrevsky, the change is due to structural changes in the entire market, as passengers have become more likely to fly low-cost carriers that operate direct flights, rather than the classic airlines

Ukraine’s main airport, Boryspil, is playing an increasing role in the region with the open skies agreement with the European Union will open up even greater prospects for the transport hub. According to the organization Airports Council International Europe, Boryspil is ranked fourth in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of passenger traffic with a figure of about 6 million passengers in the first eight months of 2021. “During the eight months of this year, passenger traffic in Ukraine increased

compared to January-March 2020, the airport reported. Of the 1.2 million passengers, 47.5% flew on charters, a big increase over last year. The top 5 destinations for all travelers in March alone were: Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, Istanbul, Dubai, Minsk. With the suspension of UIA’s long haul route network, transit passengers dropped by 90.5% – to 36,900 for the quarter.