The website of Ryanair shows that Europe’s n.1 airline will launch flights from Milan-Bergamo, Bologna, Rome and Catania to Kharkov, Kyiv, Lviv and Odessa. Operation is expected to start on July 6.
The new routes are:
- Milan-Bergamo – Kharkov
- Milan-Bergamo – Kyiv
- Milan-Bergamo – Lviv
- Milan-Bergamo – Odessa
- Bologna – Kyiv
- Bologna – Lviv
- Bologna – Odessa
- Rome – Kyiv
- Catania – Kyiv
- Rome – Lviv
- Rome – Odessa
In October 2019, few months before the international lockdown due to the coronavirus epidemic, the Chief Commercial Officer of Ryanair David O’Brien had announced the Ukraine Summer 2020 schedule with 19 new summer routes (16 new summer services + 3 brand new routes), including Kherson as the 5th Ukrainian airport in the Airline’s map.
With 43 routes in total, the Airline expected a growth of 33%, with over 2 million of passengers.
This was the plan of the 3 new routes (starting in December 2019):
- Kharkov to Warsaw Modlin (2 pw),
- Lviv to Budapest (2pw),
- Kherson to Krakow (2pw).
16 new 2020 summer services:
- Kharkov to Poznan (2pw),
- Kharkov to Vilnius (2pw),
- Kharkov to Budapest (2pw),
- Kyiv to Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden (2 pw),
- Kyiv to Frankfurt Hahn (2 pw),
- Kyiv to Katowice (4 pw),
- Kyiv to Madrid (5 pw),
- Kyiv to Dusseldorf Weeze (2 pw),
- Kyiv to Nuremburg (2 pw),
- Kyiv to Valencia (2 pw),
- Odessa to Budapest (2 pw),
- Odessa to Gdansk (2 pw),
- Odessa to Katowice (3 pw),
- Odessa to Poznan (2 pw),
- Odessa to Berlin Schönefeld (2 pw),
- Odessa to Wroclaw (2 pw).
No official announcements were released by Ryanair about its summer plan above, further to the international coronavirus lockdown.
