Ukraine, Moldova to resume air service after 4-year break
KIEV. April 12. KAZINFORM. Ukraine and Moldova are resuming air communication after a four-year interval, the press service of the company AeroSvit reported on Monday. The Ukrainian air carrier got a permission from Moldova's air transport authorities to make flights en route Kiev-Chisinau-Kiev and make the first flight on April 20; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
The schedule envisages making four flights a week. The company will ensure the possibility of bringing passengers from Kiev and the biggest regional centers, including Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye , Ivano-Frankovsk, Lugansk and Lvov, to Moldova.
Regular air communication between the countries was interrupted at the end of March 2006. Before, since June 2044, the air line Kiev-Chisinau was jointly serviced by the company AeroSvit and the Moldovan air company Tandem-Aero. Since March 28, 2006, the Moldovan air company, which was actually an air carrier on this air line, has stopped making regular flights to Kiev for commercial reasons; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass.