Ryanair plane. Stock photo: Getty Images
Tamila Tasheva, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, has reported that a memorandum of cooperation regarding future operations in Crimea was signed with Ryanair last year.
Source: Tasheva during the event entitled Ukraine 2050. Dialogues about the Future, as reported by Ukrainian news outlet NV
Details: “Ryanair CEOs stated that after Crimea is liberated and security is ensured, they are ready to be the first to enter Crimea and resume flights. This is a question of tourism potential, so that it’s not just unsustainable tourism, as we remember it, but it’s a question of large network structures coming in,” she said.
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At the same time, Tasheva stressed that without infrastructure development and security restoration, it is challenging to discuss investments that could come to the peninsula.
For reference: Ryanair, founded in Ireland, is Europe’s largest low-cost airline.
Background:
- Flights to one of Ukraine’s airports – Lviv or Boryspil (Kyiv) – could restart by the end of January 2025.
- Civil aviation flights over Ukraine were fully suspended on 24 February 2022.
- In April 2023, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) estimated in its 2023-2029 forecast that the restrictions on flights in Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian and Moldovan airspace would remain in place.
- Boryspil International Airport announced in October 2023 that it would be ready to handle flights within one month of the war ending.
- Andrii Yermak, Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, said in November 2023 that one of Ukraine’s civilian airports will most likely resume operations even before the war ends.
- Supernova Airlines was granted permission to operate Lviv-Prague and Kyiv-Prague flights with a frequency of seven flights per week for a regular international air service.
- Ukraine’s Ministry for Communities and Territories Development, along with the directors of international airports, presented a roadmap for reopening Ukraine’s airspace during wartime.
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