For air traffic, Ukraine rose to 2nd place among the 10 nations of Eastern Europe and the Baltics,

For air traffic, Ukraine rose to 2^nd place among the 10 nations of Eastern Europe and the Baltics, reports Novoe Vremya Business. In the first half of this year, air traffic in Ukraine jumped by 20% to 10.7 million passengers, displacing slow-growing Romania, which had 10.5 million passengers. Although Ukraine had the region’s fastest growth rate, its volume wass still less than half the 22.3 million recorded in Polish airports. Ukraine has the region’s largest population, about 40 million people.