12:29 16.05.2016

Largest low-cost airline in Europe Ryanair looks to fly to Lviv

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Largest low-cost airline in Europe Ryanair looks to fly to Lviv

The largest low-cost airline in Europe, Ryanair, is holding talks with Lviv on the flights to the city, Ryanair Chief Commercial Officer David O'Brien has said in an interview with Forbes Ukraine.

"I don’t think that we will discuss flights to Odesa. Ukraine today can be considered only as am additional route to our key markets. They are Italy, Spain, Britain, Ireland and Germany where there are many popular routes closer than Ukraine. Broadly speaking, our business model is that each additional flight increases our production cost per passenger and we expects that this investment is returned. There is demand in Ukraine on flights to many countries. These are mostly flights to the east and north where Ryanair does not have the right to fly," he said.

O'Brien also said that Ukraine is too large, and its airports are physically located far from each other and can be independent.

"Ukraine should not create private monopoly at airports. It is important that the country does not make a mistake when first government monopoly is created and then via so-called privatization of airports they are transferred to private monopoly," he said.

O'Brien said that Ukraine should not allow the privatization of airports by affiliated companies to avoid private monopoly.

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