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Aug 13, 2019 (newstodate): Low-cost traffic is making strong advances from this autumn in the Ukrainian market.
The Hungarian LCC Wizz Air will be offering flights on a total of 53 routes to 13 countries from Ukraine, making Wizz Air the largest LCC in the country.
Starting from November 2019, Wizz Air will thus launch six new services from Odessa International Airport to Budapest, Berlin Schoenefeld in Germany, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Katowice in Poland and Bratislava in Slovakia, as well as a new route from Lviv to Larnaca in Cyprus, on top of flights on a new route between Kharkiv and Krakow from August 2, 2019.
Wizz Air set up Wizz Air Ukraine as the country's first low-cost carrier with the launch on July 18, 2008, but rigid changes in Ukraine's aviation law forced Wizz Air to close down the subsidiary in 2015.
Instead, Wizz Air returned to the Ukrainian market with own operations from 2016.
Opening its first destination in Ukraine in 2018, Ryanair is now offering flights to 17 destinations from Kiev and Lviv, but from November 2019 going up to 40 routes from Kiev, Lviv, Odessa and Kharkov, with the total number of flights increasing from 52 to 113 per week.