By February, Turkish Airlines plans to increase the frequency of flights from Istanbul to Kyiv by 50%, to 24 flights a week. Last month, it increased flights from Istanbul to Odesa to three a day. Last year, Turkish Airlines, the national flag carrier, carried 600,000 passengers between Turkey and Ukraine, an 18% increase over 2016. Turkey’s largest airline flies to Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Lviv, Odesa, and Zaporizhia.