KYIV. Aug 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Direct flights will be launched between Odes and Germany’s Paderborn in 2017. The Odesa airport and Paderborn city signed relevant memorandum, Odesa regional governor Mikheil Saakashvili has said.
“The final phase of negotiations with Air Berlin is underway,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Saakashvili said that Paderborn is located in the center of Germany and it is easy to get to Berlin, Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Amsterdam from it.
He added that he promised to attract 1 million of tourists to Odesa in 2016. He completed the task in advance.
As reported, Bravo Airways (Kyiv) started flying on the Kyiv-Odesa route from July 15 and Belarus’ Belavia increased the number of flights on the Minsk-Odesa route from 12 to 14 a week from August 1, 2016.
Today the Odesa airport is building a new terminal that would be finished by late 2016. It is planned to reconstruct the runway.
The airport services flights of aircraft of around 20 Ukrainian and foreign airlines flying to 60 countries.
Air Berlin is the second largest airline in Germany. It carries over 30 million passengers every year and services flights to 147 destinations.
