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Apr 29, 2019 (newstodate): The new privately-owned Ukrainian charter and LCC carrier SkyUp Airlines is planning for a major expansion in services and aircraft fleet.
The AOC was granted on May 16, 2018, and already on May 19, SkyUp was in the air with its first Boeing 737-800 aircraft on a commercial flight.
Plans are to grow the fleet to 10 aircraft in 2019, 12 in 2020, 14 in 2021 and up to 18 in 2022.
Earlier this month, the carrier received its fifth Boeing 737-800 aircraft, and in the fleet of SkyUp are thus now five Boeing 737-800 and one Boeing 737-700 aircraft, while orders have been placed for four Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to arrive from 2023.
This summer, the airline plans for an increase in regular flights by 40 percent, with the opening of new route from Kiev to Naples, Alicante and Tenerife.
Flights on the route to Alicante will be operated four times weekly, while flights to Naples and Tenerife will be offered twice-weekly.
Starting out with charter flights, SkyUp Airlines introduced its first regular services in December 2018, to destinations including Tbilisi, Sofia, Poprad and Barcelona.
The carrier is now also to start flights on scheduled domestic routes from Kiev to Odessa, as well as between Kharkov and Odessa.
The airline is fully owned by Ukrainian capital, with 50 percent of the stake held by the two owners behind the country's leading tour operator JoinUp, Tatiana and Yuri Alba.
The AOC was granted on May 16, 2018, and already on May 19, SkyUp was in the air with its first Boeing 737-800 aircraft on a commercial flight.
Plans are to grow the fleet to 10 aircraft in 2019, 12 in 2020, 14 in 2021 and up to 18 in 2022.
Earlier this month, the carrier received its fifth Boeing 737-800 aircraft, and in the fleet of SkyUp are thus now five Boeing 737-800 and one Boeing 737-700 aircraft, while orders have been placed for four Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to arrive from 2023.
This summer, the airline plans for an increase in regular flights by 40 percent, with the opening of new route from Kiev to Naples, Alicante and Tenerife.
Flights on the route to Alicante will be operated four times weekly, while flights to Naples and Tenerife will be offered twice-weekly.
Starting out with charter flights, SkyUp Airlines introduced its first regular services in December 2018, to destinations including Tbilisi, Sofia, Poprad and Barcelona.
The carrier is now also to start flights on scheduled domestic routes from Kiev to Odessa, as well as between Kharkov and Odessa.
The airline is fully owned by Ukrainian capital, with 50 percent of the stake held by the two owners behind the country's leading tour operator JoinUp, Tatiana and Yuri Alba.