Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, will take another step out of transportation isolation with its first scheduled flights to Italy next March

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, will take another step out of transportation isolation with its first scheduled flights to Italy next March. Ernest Airlines will launch two direct flights : Kharkiv-Milan and Kharkiv-Rome. Chady El Tannir, business development director of the Milan-based airline, agreed on the flights in a meeting this week with Mark Bekker, a Kharkiv region official, Ukrinform reports. By November, Wizz Air, another new entry to Kharkiv, is to have flights to six EU cities: Dortmund, Gdansk, Katowice, London, Vienna and Wroclaw. Through July, Kharkiv airport passenger flow is up 21%, to 543,300 people.