With these new flights and 11 new ones from Kyiv Boryspil, Ryanair will double its Ukraine routes this year to 32.

With these new flights and 11 new ones from Kyiv Boryspil, Ryanair will double its Ukraine routes this year to 32. Speaking in Kharkiv on Tuesday, Mikhail Kachmazhik, executive director of Ryanair Sun, the Polish unit operating the flights, said: “In 2019 we plan to connect Ukraine with 24 cities in 11 countries and transport 1.4 million passengers per year.” Kharkiv airport, serving Ukraine’s second largest city, aims to increase passenger traffic this year by 25%, to 1.2 million. This month it welcomed two other low cost airlines: SkyUp with a flight to Sharjah; and Ernest Airlines with flights to Rome and Milan Malpensa.