UIA Halts Ticket Sales and Cancels Almost All Flights Until August 1
Tickets are currently available only for individual flights.
Ukraine International Airlines has stopped selling tickets until August 1 and cancelled almost all flights up to that date. The Lowcost Avia portal noted this, and UIA President Yevgeny Dykhne also confirmed the information.
"All airlines in the world currently have open sales for future periods that extend beyond the quarantine. For example, we closed our sales until July 1, understanding that nothing would happen in aviation before July 1. Now we will almost certainly close all sales until, most likely, August 1, so that we can schedule only those flights that the passenger will understand we will operate. And we will determine these flights based on the ability of tourist passengers to travel," the head of UIA said at a briefing.
Currently, the airline's schedule includes only three domestic routes on select dates in June:
- Kyiv — Odesa on June 12, 19 and 26. Odesa — Kyiv on June 14, 21 and 29
- Kyiv — Lviv on June 26. Lviv — Kyiv on June 29
- Kyiv — Kherson on June 19 and 26. Kherson — Kyiv on June 21 and 29
From July 5, tickets can be purchased for the Kyiv — London flight.
In May, UIA closed ticket sales until July 1. Later, the company planned to resume domestic air travel from June 12, then postponed this to June 15.
At the same time, UIA will continue operating special flights to bring Ukrainians back from abroad. In June, flights are planned from Bangkok, New York, Miami and Dubai.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the resumption of domestic flights from June 5, and international flights from the 15th.
EU countries will open external borders no earlier than July. From July 1, restrictions will be lifted for citizens of countries where the epidemic situation is similar to or better than in the EU.
According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, full international air travel will not resume in summer 2020. Due to the quarantine, Ukrainian airlines are suffering losses of 600-700 million hryvnias per month.
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