Low-cost airline Wizz Air has officially resumed operations at Suceava “Ștefan cel Mare” International Airport in north-eastern Romania, which is the closest international airport to Ukraine.
According to the airline’s statement, two Airbus A321neo aircraft are based in Suceava, and more than 130,000 seats have been added for the 2025/26 winter season. Starting this week, Wizz Air is launching seven new routes from Suceava to Bologna, Milan-Bergamo, Venice, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Birmingham, Larnaca and Brussels-Charleroi, and from January 2026, it will increase the frequency of flights to Dortmund to four times a week.
With the new destinations, Wizz Air now offers 13 routes from Suceava to six European countries – in addition to the cities mentioned above, there are flights to Vienna, Rome, London, Memmingen and Milan Malpensa.
The airline positions Suceava as the closest international airport for Ukrainian passengers: the airport is located near the border, and there are numerous bus services from Chernivtsi, with the journey usually taking 2-3 hours, sometimes up to 1.5 hours with minimal queues at the Porubne-Siret checkpoint. Ticket prices start at around 400 UAH.
According to industry experts, the development of the base in Suceava expands the range of cheap flights to EU countries for Ukrainian residents while Ukrainian airports remain closed to regular flights due to the full-scale war.
The Nikkei Asia news portal reported that the Japanese company Sojitz will invest in the construction of a new international airport in Tashkent.
According to the publication, Sojitz will start implementing the project this year. The construction is part of the company’s $1 billion infrastructure investment.
The Tashkent airport will be built in partnership with the Saudi company Vision Invest on the basis of a public-private partnership. Sojitz plans to invest tens of billions of yen, or hundreds of millions of dollars, in the project. The company has previously participated in international airport projects in Kumamoto and Okinawa prefectures, as well as on the islands of Palau.
“The project for a new airport in Uzbekistan was approved in August 2025. According to the plan, its opening is scheduled for 2028. The new airport will be able to handle up to 20 million passengers per year and provide more than 40 takeoffs and landings per hour, making it the largest in Central Asia,” the article notes.
Sojitz also plans to participate in other infrastructure projects in Uzbekistan. Together with the Turkish company Ronesans International, it plans to build a large 800-bed hospital, a 1 GW wind farm, and a 1.6 GW thermal power plant in Samarkand.
According to Nikkei Asia, Uzbekistan is the largest country in the region with a population of 37 million. Annual GDP growth exceeds 6%, and tax breaks and incentives are available for foreign investors. The corporate tax rate is 15%.
“As of October 2024, 54 Japanese companies are operating in Uzbekistan, twice as many as in 2019. In June, Sojitz opened its first official office in Tashkent,” the publication notes.
The article also notes that other Japanese companies are actively developing infrastructure projects in Uzbekistan. For example, Toyota Tsusho, through its subsidiary Eurus Energy Holdings, is exploring a site for a 500 MW wind farm and has signed an agreement with NEC to build data centers. Marubeni, in partnership with the UAE, is implementing a project to build a wastewater treatment plant.
In addition, Nikkei Asia reports that Uzbekistan is in talks with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry to expand cooperation in the extraction of mineral resources, particularly those of strategic importance.
On June 18, the President of Uzbekistan inspected the construction of the new Tashkent East Airport, one of the country’s strategic infrastructure projects.
Construction on the former military airfield started in 2017.
The future airport is positioned as a transportation hub for the capital and the New Tashkent under construction. Its main activities will be receiving official visits and business trips of foreign investors. It is expected that its opening will stimulate the development of the tourism industry in Tashkent region.
According to the presented master plan, the total area of the new air harbor will be 561 hectares. The passenger terminal will serve up to 100 people per hour. The airfield’s apron will be able to park 23 double-deck Boeing 747s simultaneously.
The first phase of work, including the renovation of a 4-kilometer runway, was completed in 2023.
The airfield is capable of handling aircraft of all classes, including the heaviest ones.
The construction of two terminals is underway to accommodate official delegations and business aviation, as well as a runway and hangars for aircraft maintenance. The airport will be equipped with modern ICAO Class III-A radio and meteorological equipment. It will become the first air hub in Central Asia with ICAO Category III-A, which will allow it to receive flights even in fog and zero visibility.
The renovation of Tashkent-East is aimed at creating a modern, convenient and safe air hub that will relieve the capital’s main international airport and increase the overall level of air traffic.
Thanks to its favorable location, Tashkent-East will be able to reduce the load on the capital’s main international airport and increase the capacity of the country’s entire aviation infrastructure.
Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali has stated that Serbia is interested in obtaining a concession to manage two international passenger airports in Montenegro — in Podgorica and Tivat.
According to him, despite repeated appeals to the Montenegrin authorities, Serbia has not been included in the process of considering concession proposals.
Mali stressed that Serbia is ready to invest in the development of these airports in excess of the current offers and has the necessary experience and resources to modernize aviation infrastructure, citing the successful development of Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport.
The Montenegrin government is currently considering proposals from three companies interested in the airport concession, including a consortium from France and Turkey, as well as companies from Luxembourg and South Korea. The decision on the transfer of the airports to concession will be made after analyzing the proposals received.
However, there is active debate within Montenegro about the advisability of transferring the airports to concession. Some experts and trade union representatives have expressed concerns that such a move could lead to a loss of control over strategically important assets and negatively affect the country’s economy, especially given the significant role of tourism in Montenegro’s GDP.
Thus, despite the interest of Serbia and other foreign investors, the future of Montenegro’s airports remains uncertain, and the final decision will depend on the balance between economic interests and national development strategy.
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Director General of the King Daniel Halytskyi International Airport “Lviv” (LWO) Tetyana Romanovska said that the airport may resume flights in late spring or early summer “under an optimistic scenario,” the Lviv edition of High Castle reports.
“We would like the opening of the airport to take place in the summer period, because we understand that the main air traffic falls on vacations, summer and when the day is long. If it happens as early as April or May, it will be very good for us,” Romanovskaya said in an interview.
She added that “five to seven” airlines are ready to work in Lviv, within a month after the launch of the terminal.
“Wizzair, Air Baltic, Turkish Airlines, Sky Up, Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, LOT are ready to fly from Lviv. Now we are talking about restoring regular flights from Lviv. Sky Up airline is likely to try to return charter flights. They have a good network of routes in Europe”, – said the head of the airport.
State enterprise “International Airport “Boryspil” (Kiev) on April 25 announced a tender for the purchase of services of compulsory insurance of civil liability of owners of land vehicles (OSAGO), reported in the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro.
As noted, the expected cost of the purchase of services is UAH 157 thousand.
Security of the tender offer is not required.
The deadline for submission of bids is May 3
