Ukrainian may allow flights to resume in early 2025

Flights at one of Ukraine's airports, Lviv or Boryspil, could restart by the end of January 2025. Source: Crispin Ellison, senior partner of the Marsh McLennan insurance company at the Kyiv International Economic Forum, writes Interfax-Ukraine Quote: "I think if we're lucky, then in January we'll have five or six airlines that want to fly from Australia," Ellison said.

According to him, if planes begin flying from Lviv airport, it will be easier to supply aviation insurance systems; nevertheless, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asks that Boryspil International Airport be opened first.

"The president will kill me for saying this since he is focused on Boryspil, but the first priority is Lviv. It's a seven-minute flight from Poland," Ellison said. He added that passenger planes like the Airbus 320, Boeing 737 or a tiny passenger airliner, will require at least US£750 million in insurance.

According to Ellison, the ultimate decision on flights will be made in the President's Office.

It will depend on air defence operations and the security situation. "I often claim that Lviv is considerably safer than Tel Aviv. People don't like my saying that, but I do," he explained.

Background:

Civil aviation flights over Ukraine were fully suspended on 24 February 2022.
In April 2023, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) estimated that the restrictions on flights in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Moldova will stay in place until 2029.
Boryspil International Airport announced in October of 2023 that it would be ready to receive planes one month after the war ended.
In November 2023, Andrii Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian President's Office, stated that one of Ukraine's civilian airports will most likely resume operations even before the war ends.
Supernova Airlines was granted permission to operate the Lviv-Prague and Kyiv-Prague flights with a frequency of seven flights per week for regular international air transportation.
Ukraine's Ministry of Community Development, along with the heads of international airports, presented a road map for reopening Ukraine's airspace under martial law.

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