A Boeing 737-800SF from the fleet of Supernova Airlines of the NOVA Group (Nova Poshta) has completed its first flight between European airports, the press service of the NOVA Group reports.
“On September 18, 2024, Supernova Airlines made the first flight on its own Boeing 737-800SF aircraft flying the flag of Ukraine, with Ukrainian registration marks UR-NPA. This was a certification flight, one of the final steps in the process of introducing the Boeing 737-800SF type to Supernova’s operator certificate by the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine,” the NOVA press service said.
The airline plans to start regular commercial operation of the aircraft in the winter season of 2024-2025.
Earlier, a Boeing 737-800 from Supernova’s fleet operated a maintenance flight from Guangzhou (China) to Vilnius (Lithuania) with a technical stop at Tashkent Airport.
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 using cargo versions of modern aircraft manufactured by Boeing or Airbus.
Supernova Airlines has received a Ukrainian operator’s certificate, which allows it to start cargo flights on January 6, 2023.
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.
