Ukraine seeks to bring in more airlines, sell airport contracts

Ukraine should have its first low-cost airlines flying domestic routes by the end of the year and is also putting a handful of contracts to run airports up for sale, the country's infrastructure minister said Wednesday. Ryanair launched its first routes to Ukraine this year and Volodymyr Omelyan, the minister who helped revive the deal after vested interests had threatened to torpedo it, is now working on the domestic market. "We have a new operation SkyUp starting its operations and…I hope also by the end of this year, we will have another domestic company established in Kherson in south Ukraine." <br/>