Turkish Airlines is ready to expand frequency of flights on existing routes to Ukraine if the increase of frequency is agreed at the intergovernmental level, Head of the airline's representative office in Kyiv Dincer Saygi has said.

"Of course, we would like to increase frequency of flights on existing routes, especially, to Kyiv, Odesa and Lviv. We need to receive permits. This requires amending the agreements at the intergovernmental level between Ukraine and Turkey. Now we have permits for 16 flights a week to Kyiv, 11 flights to Odesa and three to Lviv," he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

He said that the airlines has a network of Ukrainian cities has seven cities: Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Zaporizhia and Ivano-Frankivsk.

Turkish Airlines (T"urk Hava Yollari) was founded in 1933 with a fleet of five planes. Today it has 315 passenger and transport planes.

Turkish Airlines flies to 289 airports (49 domestic and 240 international airports).