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Oct 15, 2021 (newstodate): After years of negotiations and preparations, Ukraine and EU has finally landed an Open Skies Agreement on October 12, 2021.
    With the agreement in place, carriers registered in Ukraine and in any EU member country will gain free access to set up routes between any points in the countries involved, and also all limitations on capacity and frequencies will be removed.  
   The process towards this end goal started on September 27, 2005, when the EU Commission proposed to open negotiations with Ukraine to develop a common aviation area. Hopes were for the process to be completed already in 2014- but later political unrest and military conflicts postponed the completion of the agreement.
   Already within the first day after the signing, Wizz Air announced a massive expansion in the Ukrainian market, with the opening of 26 new route and the allocation of a further seven aircraft to its bases at Kiev, Lviv and Odessa.
   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.