The low-cost airline Wizz Air is back on an expansion course in Ukraine. Five more aircraft will be stationed at Kiev Schuljany Airport and two in Lviv. A total of 26 more routes are being added from this country.

The carrier justifies the expansion step, among other things, with the Open Skies Agreement, which was signed on Tuesday between the European Union and Ukraine. That makes it comparatively easy to get route rights. But this also applies to Ukrainian carriers. For example, Skyup and Bees Airlines are already planning additional EU destinations.

Wizz Air will add a total of 26 new routes from Kiev-Schuljany, Lemberg, Odessa and Kharkov. The frequencies are being increased on some existing routes, including Vienna-Kiev. According to a media statement by the carrier, five additional Airbus A2022s will be stationed at the beginning of the summer flight schedule period of 321. Routes to Paris Beauvais, Brussels-Charleroi, Eindhoven, Nice, Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Alicante, Malaga, Porto, Palma d Mallorca, Chania (Crete) and Basel Mulhouse Freiburg are recorded.

At the same time, a new base with two A321s is being built in Lviv. There are non-stop flights to Paris Beauvais, Madrid, Eindhoven, Barcelona, ​​Brussels-Charleroi, Nice, Treviso, Athens and Thessaloniki.

In addition, the airline will also invest to create more travel options for passengers from Odessa and Kharkov as the airline establishes new routes from Odessa to London Luton, Pardubice and Athens, and from Kharkov to Thessaloniki and Pardubice. In addition, Wizz Air is expanding the frequency of 25 routes already served from Ukraine, including the Kiev - Vienna route, which will be increased from four to seven flights.

In the past, Wizz Air had its own subsidiary in Ukraine. This maintained its bases in Kiev-Schuljany and Donetsk. Due to the events in Eastern Ukraine, the last-mentioned base was closed in 2014. A few months later, the closure and dissolution of Wizz Air Ukraine was announced. The company management repeatedly brought a possible reactivation of the subsidiary into play, but this should no longer have a particularly high priority due to the Open Skies Agreement.