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Dniproavia’s inaugural Kyiv-Kharkiv flight from Kharkiv International Airport

Tuesday, June 10, an inaugural Kyiv-Kharkiv flight, operated by the Ukrainian Dniproavia air company, took off at Kharkiv International Airport.

Opening of this “metropolitan” flight started a new stage of a broad and mutually beneficial cooperation between Dniproavia and Kharkiv airport, reported their executives during a briefing after arrival of the first flight from Kyiv.

“By opening a Kyiv-Kharkiv flight, connecting our two capitals, we begin a new promising chapter of cooperation which will soon result in launching another seven international and domestic flights,” said the Deputy Commercial Manager of Dniproavia Piotr Falkovskiy.

“It’s, first of all, a development,” noted Piotr Falkovskiy speaking on importance of this event. “We were very interested in the Kharkiv region economic activity’s mobile market, tourist market, and it’s important for us to support the development of the region. We offered a possibility to fly from Kharkiv to Kyiv, through Kyiv to other Ukrainian cities, and then direct flights to the Caucasus and to Europe. If everything goes well, we will open direct flights to those destinations as well.”

He specified that “in June we are already launching flights from Kharkiv to Batumi (weekly), Baku (twice a week), Yerevan (weekly), and Tbilisi (weekly)”, as well as flights to Moscow and Warsaw. Apart from that, the air company is planning to connect Kharkiv with Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk in winter and, eventually, with the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria (Varna). The air company hopes to reopen flights to the Crimea. “Our Embraer ERJ-145 planes with its economy and premium-economy seats,” noted Piotr Falkovskiy, “will make our passengers’ journeys comfortable.”

Kharkiv International Airport Director General Vladimir Vasilchenko said the new stage of cooperation with Dniproavia to be promising and productive.

“If Dniproavia performs all planned flights, I think it has a chance to become one of the leading airlines for the mentioned destinations of our airport,” said Vladimir Vasilchenko. He also told that by the end of 2014 Kharkiv International Airport, also thanks to the new flights of Dniproavia, is expected to have served a similar to the last year passenger flow of about 600 thousand passengers.

Reference Information

Kharkiv International Airport (http://hrk.aero/) is one of the key objects of Sloboda region’s capital, which was reconstructed in the framework of preparation for the final part of EURO 2012. The new runway is 2500 х 45 m in size. The large-scale project was started on 1 April 2008, when New Systems AM (DCH Group, owned by Aleksandr Yaroslavskiy – a famous Ukrainian businessman, general investor and coordinator of Kharkiv’s preparation for Euro 2012, in 2005-2012 – the president of FC Metalist) won a tender for long-term lease of the integral property complex of the Kharkiv airport.

Reconstruction of Kharkiv International Airport was carried out in the format of private-public partnership. The total sum of the investments made by Aleksandr Yaroslavskiy in the project (air-terminal complex and the premises) amounted to 7.2 million, and another 1.3 million was invested by the state.