The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States (FAA) has lifted a ban on American airlines flying to the airports of Dnipro, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv, as well as in the controlled part of the airspace over the Black Sea, the press service of the Infrastructure Ministry reported on Friday.

"The absence of risk in these zones will allow others to return and attract new airlines, and thereby increase the profitability of airfields," Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said on his Facebook page.

According to him, the decision to lift the ban was made by the FAA after the recent visit of the minister to the United States and on the results of the work of the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine and UkSATSE.

As reported, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration from December 29, 2014 prohibited civil aviation flights over Simferopol and Dnipro. Later, on October 27, 2015. this ban was extended for a year.

The document applies to all U.S. air carriers, U.S. commercial operators, persons exercising the privileges of a U.S. airman certificate, except when such persons are operating a U.S. registered aircraft for a foreign air carrier, and operators of U.S. registered civil aircraft, except when such operators are foreign air carriers.

The list also includes operators of civilian aircraft registered in the United States, except when such operators are foreign air carriers.