To boost domestic air travel, a Dnipro Regional airport will be a public-private project, with the state building the runway and private investors building the terminal

To boost domestic air travel, a Dnipro Regional airport will be a public-private project, with the state building the runway and private investors building the terminal, says Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan. Saying the target site, Solone in Dniprotrovesk region, is at the center of an urban catchment area of 2.5 million people, he adds: “Construction of the airport in Solone will solve the problem of air traffic of the whole conglomeration: Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Kryvyi Rih.” Appealing to investors, he assures $7 million is in the 2019 budget for the first year of the 3-year construction project. He calls the regional airport “a truly worthy new facility — the first airport to be built in independent Ukraine.”