Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), the largest airline in the country, on June 15 started servicing direct regular flight between Kyiv and Budapest (Hungary), the airline has said in a press release.

According to the press release, the new flights are serviced every day using Boeing 737-800 planes with economic and business class seats. From Kyiv the plane departs at 13:35 and arrives to Budapest at 14:30. The plane departs from Budapest at 15:20 and arrives to Kyiv at 18:00 (local time).

The cost of a one-way economy class ticket with all taxes and duties is offered from $55 (from Kyiv).

"With early booking, in 10 or six months in advance, the low cost price would be $21-50 for the one-way ticket," UIA said.

UIA is the largest Ukrainian airline. Its base airport is Boryspil (Kyiv).

Now there are 42 aircraft in the UIA fleet. The average operation life of the aircraft is 12 years.

One of the ultimate beneficiaries of the company is businessman Ihor Kolomoisky.