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The new Ukrainian airline Air Ocean Airlines has received the rights to operate five domestic airlines, as well as one international. This is evidenced by the orders of the State Aviation Service of Ukraine dated November 1, 1689 and 1690, – lowcost.ua reports.
Thus, the airline received a permit for regular flights from Lviv to Dnipro and Kharkiv, as well as from Kyiv to Lviv, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhia and Amman. Permission for domestic flights was granted from November 10 for an unlimited period with the definition of an unlimited frequency of flights, and in Amman from November 21 also for an unlimited period.
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New destinations of Air Ocean Airlines from Lviv:
Lviv – Kharkiv – Lviv
Lviv – Dnipro – Lviv
Kyiv – Lviv – Kyiv
Book tickets and learn more at their website.
For reference
Air Ocean Airlines is a Ukrainian airline founded on September 16, 2020. It received a license to carry passengers by air on October 27, 2021. The main activity of the airline is to perform regular and charter flights on Ukrainian-made aircraft AN-148 and AN-158 (built by Antonov, supporting the initiative of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the airline became the first carrier to fly domestic aircraft).
Currently, the airline’s fleet consists of two An-148-100E aircraft, which previously flew in the fleet of the Russian airline ANGARA (the remains of the livery of which remain on the aircraft until now). By the end of 2021, another aircraft should be delivered, and in 2022 – three more aircraft. In total, the company plans to operate up to 10 aircraft of this type. The full cycle of maintenance of An-148 aircraft will be performed within Ukraine.
You can read the Ukrainian version of this story here.
Translated by Joe Lindsley (follow on Instagram or LinkedIn)
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