New aviation rules to complicate life for foreign-owned airlines
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The Ministry of Justice on Nov. 13 registered a new mechanism of distributing air routes amongst aviation companies, which requires a carrier that wants the right to fly international routes to have the Ukrainian state or a Ukrainian citizen as its final beneficiary.
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[Local representative of Hungary’s low-cost airline] WizzAir also says the new rules contradict Ukraine’s intentions to join the European common aviation area and to build a market responding to European Union norms. However, Denys Antonyuk, head of the State Aviation Service, says signing the #Open_Sky_Agreement with the EU is high on his institution’s agenda after having been postponed twice already.
Industry experts and market players say these measures will boost the positions of Antonyuk’s former employer, Ukraine International Airlines, the biggest local operator that is a near-monopolist in Ukraine. Several investigative press organizations have shown that UIA belongs to billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky, the famous Dnipropetrovsk governor, although he has never publicly confirmed this. Antonyuk was a top manager at UIA and is pushing these new regulations forward.
Bref, sur la bonne route, mais dans la direction opposée…