By tracking millions of movements of Ukrainian SIM card owners, aviation consultants built the case last year for Ryanair and Wizz Air to enter the Ukrainian market

By tracking millions of movements of Ukrainian SIM card owners, aviation consultants built the case last year for Ryanair and Wizz Air to enter the Ukrainian market and to expand across the country in 2019, Yevgen Treskunov, founding partner of Aviaplan aviation consulting, told the Tiger conference. Rejecting arguments that discount airlines will not fill their Ukraine flights, he predicted these ‘invisible movements’ will shift from land – car, bus or train – to air, if airlines meet their goals of offering EUR 40-50 tickets. Such low prices are possible with Boeing 737s and Airbus 320s and by serving regional airports where there is pent-up demand