Lviv airport expects to see passenger traffic increase by 42%
Ukraine’s fastest-growing major airport, Lviv expects to see passenger traffic increase this year by 42% y-o-y, to 2.2 million people, Tatyana Romanovska, the airport director, said on Friday, ubn.news reports.
She spoke on the occasion of 2 million passengers using the airport this year. In October, traffic was up 45% over one year ago. Next year, she predicts traffic will increase by 30 to 40%.
With direct, year-round flights to 30 different foreign cities, Lviv is served by Ukraine’s big four low coast carriers: Ernest, Ryanair, SkyUp and Wizz Air.
In the last month, SkyUp opened these new flights – Lviv-Kharkiv; Lviv-Kyiv; Lviv-Paris Beauvais; Lviv-Prague and Lviv-Tel Aviv.
Wizz Air recently started Lviv-Larnaca. Next spring, Wizz Air and Ryanair start Lviv-Budapest.