Planning to fly domestic routes in Ukraine

Planning to fly domestic routes in Ukraine, Wizz Air plans to reopen in 2019 its local subsidiary, Wizz Air Ukraine. The Budapest-based carrier closed this unit in 2015 after Russia’s military attacks on southeast Ukraine. With a local airline, Wizz Air will be able to fly local routes. Although Ukraine is the size of continental France, domestic traffic is tiny, often only 5% of passengers using Kyiv Sikorsky airport, Wizz Air’s main base here. There are no flights from Lviv to Kharkiv or to Odesa, and no flights from Kharkiv to Odesa. Wizz Air estimates that the development of a flourishing domestic flight network would create 6,000 direct and indirect jobs.