Fighting for regional air travelers, Ukraine International Airlines launched yesterday its first “SkyBus” — from Vinnytsia Airport to Kyiv Boryspil

Fighting for regional air travelers, Ukraine International Airlines launched yesterday its first “SkyBus” — from Vinnytsia Airport to Kyiv Boryspil. Painted in the airline’s blue and gold livery colors, the bus takes four hours to make the 250 km route, replacing what had been UIA’s shortest flight, a 35-minute hop. If this “multimodal” experiment proves popular, UIA plans bus routes from other regional capitals within 200 km of Ukraine’s busiest airport: Chernihiv and Zhytomyr. To prevent giving bus rides to passengers on Ryanair and SkyUp, UIA bus tickets sales are tied to purchase of a UIA air ticket. Ryanair plans to carry 1 million passengers in and out of Boryspil this year.