Ryanair ready to be first airline to enter Crimea after its liberation

Tamila Tasheva, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, has reported that a memorandum of cooperation was signed with Ryanair last year regarding future operations in Crimea.

Source: Tasheva during an event entitled Ukraine 2050. Dialogues about the Future, as reported by Ukrainian news outlet NV

Details: "The Ryanair CEOs stated that after Crimea is liberated and security is ensured, they are ready to be the first to enter Crimea and resume flights. This is a question of tourism potential, so that it's not just budget tourism in Crimea, as we remember it, but major chains coming in," she said.

Tasheva stressed, however, that without infrastructure development and the restoration of security, it is very difficult to talk about investments that might come to the peninsula.

For reference: Ryanair, founded in Ireland, is Europe's largest low-cost airline.

Background:

• Flights to one of Ukraine's airports – Lviv or Boryspil (Kyiv) – could restart by the end of January 2025.
• Civil aviation flights over Ukraine were fully suspended on 24 February 2022.
• In April 2023, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) estimated in its 2023-2029 forecast that the restrictions on flights in Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian and Moldovan airspace would remain in place.
• Boryspil International Airport announced in October 2023 that it would be ready to handle flights within one month of the war ending.
• Andrii Yermak, Head of the Ukrainian President's Office, said in November 2023 that one of Ukraine's civilian airports will most likely resume operations even before the war ends.
• Supernova Airlines was granted permission to operate Lviv-Prague and Kyiv-Prague flights with a frequency of seven flights per week for a regular international air service.
• Ukraine’s Ministry for Communities and Territories Development, along with the directors of international airports, presented a roadmap for reopening Ukraine's airspace during wartime.

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