UkSATSE serves nearly 43,000 flights in Jan-March 2015

16:15, 07.05.2015 1 min read

The Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise (UkSATSE) in January-March 2015 served 42,914 flights of domestic and foreign airlines in the airspace of Ukraine.

"The leader among foreign air carriers was Turkish Airlines, which made over 4,770 flights and ranked second among the total number of airlines, while in the same period last year Turkish Airlines ranked fourth among foreign air carriers in the number of flights in the Ukrainian airspace," reads a company press release.

"UkSATSE notes that Turkish Airlines in April 2015 started operating daily flights on the Istanbul-Kherson-Istanbul route. Today, the airline, in addition to transit flights over Ukraine, flies to Kyiv (Boryspil airport), Kherson, Lviv, Odesa, and Dnipropetrovsk.

Finnish airline Finnair also launched transit flights through Ukraine.

UkSATSE was created in 1992. It is the basis of the national air navigation system and united civil-military air traffic management system in Ukraine.