With 1 million inhabitants, Dnipro is Ukraine’s 4th largest city. But last year, its airport was Ukraine’s 7th busiest

With 1 million inhabitants, Dnipro is Ukraine’s 4^th largest city. But last year, its airport was Ukraine’s 7^th busiest. In 2019, traffic climbed 13% to 339,000 – the level of 2015. Because of Dnipro’s poor runway and Soviet-era terminal, the airport is shunned by airlines. The exceptions are UIA and Windrose, both controlled by Dnipro industrialist Igor Kolomoisky. In contrast, in Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million people, 11 airlines carried a total of 1,340,000 passengers last year — almost four times the level of 2015.