UIA Fully Suspends Flights on Several Routes and Changes Schedule

The airline has announced significant changes.

The country's largest air carrier, Ukraine International Airlines, announced significant changes to its schedule and the cancellation of several routes. The company intends to optimize the hub system at Boryspil International Airport and return to break-even operations.

The new schedule takes effect from 16 November 2019 for the 2019–2020 winter and summer seasons.

In particular, UIA will stop flights to Amman, Minsk and Riga. The company explained this decision by the negative profitability of these routes.

Additionally, air service between Kyiv and Beijing will be suspended, while flights Kyiv — Bangkok — Kyiv will be reduced to 3 flights per week. These changes will remain in effect until the Cabinet of Ministers develops an “effective solution for creating equal competitive conditions for Ukrainian and foreign carriers when operating flights that bypass the territory of the Russian Federation,” the company said.

Also, duplicate UIA night and day flights on eastern routes will be cancelled due to changes in the flight plan for long-haul flights.

All scheduled UIA flights to Western Europe will operate during the daytime, departing Kyiv between 9:30 — 10:30 and arriving in Kyiv between 17:30 — 18:30 local time. Flights between Kyiv and Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Krakow and Madrid will operate daily.

Twice a day the airline will operate Kyiv — London — Kyiv and Kyiv — Vilnius — Kyiv flights.

All scheduled UIA flights to Cairo, Dubai, Ankara, Izmir, Yerevan, Baku and Tehran will operate at night, departing Kyiv between 20:00 — 21:00 and arriving in Kyiv between 7:30 — 8:45 local time. Flight frequency to Tel Aviv, Istanbul and Tbilisi will increase to several times a day.

Regular air service between cities in Ukraine will continue. Flights between Kyiv and Odesa, and between Kharkiv and Lviv, will operate twice a day. Flights between Kyiv and Dnipro, Kherson, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia and Ivano-Frankivsk — will operate daily.

In winter, Kyiv and Toronto will have 3 flights per week. From 16 November the schedule for flights to New York — departure from Kyiv is moved to 11:30, and arrival in Kyiv — to 16:20. In addition, flights to the US and Canada will be operated by Boeing-777 aircraft.

The number of weekly flights between Kyiv and Delhi will increase to 5 in winter and then to 7 in summer. On this route UIA will use Boeing-767 aircraft.

“Ukraine International Airlines”

UIA will offer passengers a change of route where possible, or a refund of the ticket price if a route change is not possible or the passenger refuses the proposed alternative flight. For quick and efficient processing of requests, passengers should contact the company for assistance as soon as they learn of changes to their flight. Refunds for unused tickets (or part of them) are made at the point of purchase and in the currency of payment.

For all questions, passengers are asked to contact the company via its official website, Twitter or Facebook pages, or the contact center.

Earlier, UIA said it was working on lowering ticket prices.

In September it became known that the airline is cancelling the Kyiv — Almaty flight due to unprofitability.

This autumn, due to a lack of economic benefit, Belgium's and Britain's largest airlines, Brussels Airlines and British Airways, are also ceasing flights to Ukraine.