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

Ryanair plane. Stock photo: Getty Images

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.

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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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