Last week, a Boeing 737-800 from the fleet of Supernova Airlines of the NOVA group of companies (Nova Poshta) made a maintenance flight from Guangzhou (China) to Vilnius (Lithuania) with a technical stop at Tashkent airport.
This was reported by Vyacheslav Klimov, co-founder of Nova Poshta, on the sidelines of an entrepreneurs’ forum organized by Forbes Ukraine in Kyiv on Thursday.
“The airplane made a maintenance flight. It did not carry cargo and this flight should not be considered as a full-fledged start of commercial activity of SuperNova Airlines,” Klimov said.
He emphasized that the airline is preparing to launch commercial cargo flights, but preparation is a complex process that takes time. Klimov did not specify when this would happen, but he did not rule out that it would be by the end of the year.
Earlier it was reported that Supernova Airlines opened the first route from Riga to Rzeszow in cooperation with the Latvian airline RAF-Avia using its ATR 72 aircraft.
The company clarified that the use of air transportation saves up to 36 hours on the delivery of parcels from (or to) Riga compared to trucks. It was also reported that Supernova Airlines plans to form a fleet in the future with cargo versions of modern aircraft manufactured by Boeing or Airbus.
As reported, on January 6, 2023, Supernova Airlines received a Ukrainian operator’s certificate, which allows it to start cargo flights.
