UIA mulling launch of flight to Canada one year earlier than planned

14:36, 16.09.2016 1 min read

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv) that planned to launch flights to Canada in 2019 is mulling the possibility of shifting the terms and launch them one year earlier – in 2018, UIA President Yuriy Miroshnykov has said.

"We need additional long-haul places to fly to Canada. We need to increase the volume of our medium-haul code sharing to replenish this flight," he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

He said that the Canadian market is seasonal. It has a short summer season with large demand and then a long decline.

"We need to load the plane with code sharing passengers, in particular, from the East. There are not enough of them now to effectively exploit Canadian routes all year round. We repeat for Ukrainian authorities – open the East, do something that we can fly to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and other destinations with high frequency, to several destinations in each country," he said.