Danylo Halytskyi Lviv International Airport can restore work this spring. According to the optimistic scenario, flights can begin in April-May 2025, said Tatiana Romanovskaya Airport CEO in the material for the VZ edition.
Other probable sky opening dates are summer. Five to seven airlines are ready to work in Lviv (within a month after the terminal is launched) as a symbol of strong solidarity with Ukraine. The government also considers the opening of another airport in the west of Ukraine - Uzhgorod.
"Lviv is ready to fly Wizzair, Air Baltic, Turkish Airlines, Sky Up, Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, Lot," Romanovskaya stressed. - Currently, it is about restoring regular flights from Lviv. Charter flights are likely to try to return the Sky Up airline. They have a good network of routes in Europe. The same routes are ready to execute from Lviv. Or from another Ukrainian city. This year, the representatives of the airline came to us with communication, conducted their audits. Wizzair representatives held their audit last year. Preliminary analysis is carried out and when there is a decision to open the sky, within three to four days they come to us. ”
Travel companies and tour operators sell tours for the summer season from the airports of Poland and the EU. Tatiana Romanovskaya says, if the airport is opened in Lviv, tour operators will be reorienting promptly, as it will be more convenient and much cheaper than with the EU.
"We would like to open the airport in the summer, because we understand that the main aviation traffic is on vacation, summer and when a long day," Tatiana Romanovskaya notes. "If it happens in April or May, it will be extremely good for us."
Recall that the Ukrainian airspace remains closed for commercial flights from February 24, 2022 due to a full -scale invasion of Russia. However, the government and airlines are already working on plans to gradually return to normal work.
