Ukraine recorded 20 million air passengers in 2018, 43% above 2017 levels

Ukraine recorded 20 million air passengers in 2018, 43% above 2017 levels and one third higher than the historical record of 15 million in 2013. Alexander Kunitsky writes in “Ukraine Rises on the Wing,” a 2,500-word analysis of the aviation boom for UNIAN: “Ukrainian airports showed record passenger traffic. The emergence of new low-cost airlines lowered the prices of air tickets, and the government seriously aimed at the revival of regional airports.” Fueling ‘a price war’ he writes, was “the reduction in ticket prices and the emergence of new airlines in the domestic market, which increased the intensity of the struggle for passengers.”