Seven years after Delta Air Lines ended direct New York-Kyiv flights

Seven years after Delta Air Lines ended direct New York-Kyiv flights, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan is in Washington and New York this week, pitching Ukraine to American airlines. In Washington, he met with top transportation officials, including David Burkholder, deputy head of the Federal Aviation Administration. “We will sincerely welcome the expansion of the presence of American airlines in Ukraine,” he said, noting that Ukraine has some of Europe’s fastest growing airports. Separately, he predicted the EU and Ukraine will sign next spring an agreement on the European Common Aviation Area, a step that would open Ukraine to more European carriers.