Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) recently announced its intentions to connect Boryspil International Airport, which serves the country’s capital – Kiev – with two of the Caribbean’s top tourist destinations: Cancun and Punta Cana.
The services, which will be offered in partnership with the tour operator Compass, would be available for the European autumn, i.e. in the next few weeks, and will be operated by two Boeing 777-300 aircraft that are being added to the company’s fleet.
According to statements made by Dmitry Gudziy, CEO of Compass Tour Operator, to the Avianews.com portal, “the two aircraft (to be incorporated into UIA’s fleet) will be designed to carry 426 passengers, in three classes”. The partnership between the two companies will generate charter flights to beach destinations, such as Cancun and Punta Cana in the Caribbean, as well as the Maldives, located in southern Asia, over the Indian Ocean.
Ukraine International Airlines’ fleet includes 26 passenger aircraft, most of them single-aisle: 13 B737-800s, 4 B737-900s, 5 Embraer E190s, and 2 E195s. The company’s widebodies are, in addition, to the two new B777-300s, 1 B777-200ER, 1 B767-300ER.
As part of the recovery process that the industry is experiencing, the Ukrainian airline resumed, for the European summer, flights to what they consider “our passengers preferred cities”, including: Delhi, Athens, Split and Pula in Croatia, Larnaca, Milan, Amsterdam, Paris, Paris, London (Heathrow and Gatwick), Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Geneva, Prague, Vilnius, Dubai, Istanbul, Tel-Aviv, Tashkent, Chisinau, Cairo, Tbilisi, Baku, Yerevan.
