Refusal from Russian skies has brought Ukrainian airlines to the brink of survival
The ban on flights over Russian territory led Ukrainian airlines to a severe crisis and made them uncompetitive compared to Western companies.
President of the Ukrainian airline UIA Evgeniy Dykhne stated this on air on the 1+1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“When all airlines boycott the Belarusian airspace today, we definitely do not feel in any way in a worse situation. We will compete with all airlines in the same way, we will fly over Belarus, we will fly to Lithuania, to the Scandinavian countries and we will carry our passengers in the same way as everyone else.
But when, for many years, due to the fact that Ukrainian airlines do not have the opportunity to fly over Russian territory, Crimea, Donbass, the Black Sea, we fly to the east in ways that aviation should not fly, this is also not so bad if If only our competitors who fly to Ukraine would fly the same routes. But they fly directly. And it turns out that today Ukrainian aviation is in a very difficult state and people remember it only when something happens in general aviation. And today we are competing with airlines that fly with the money of their governments,” Dykhne said.
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