We Build Crimea: Ryanair supports the reconstruction of de-occupied Crimea

During the third Crimea Platform Summit held on 23 August, Ryanair supported the Memorandum of Cooperation and Partnership and confirmed its intention to invest $3 billion in the restoration of the Ukrainian air transport market.

Rayanair has long supported our country on its path to a speedy return to peaceful life. Back in July, during a visit to Kyiv, the company’s CEO Michael O’Leary stated that Rayanair was ready to partially resume flights to Ukraine in 2023, even despite the war. Within six weeks of the reopening of Ukrainian skies, the company will return its aircraft to Kyiv, Odesa and Lviv airports.

Ryanair already has a full team of Ukrainian hires – 60 pilots and 80 cabin crew – waiting for the Ukrainian market to open at the airline’s bases in Poland.

“We are working with the Ukrainian government to restart and rebuild Ukrainian aviation. But our most important task is to help reunite 10-12 million internally displaced Ukrainians across Europe with their friends and families and to bring everyone back home to Ukraine,” said Mike O’Leary in his address to the participants of the third Crimean Platform Summit.

In the first year after returning to Ukraine, the company hopes to carry more than 5 million passengers and increase this figure to 10 million within 5 years.

We Build Crimea is a portal created at the initiative of the Ministry of Reconstruction, designed to bring together national and international business representatives for the economic recovery of Ukrainian Crimea and its potential.

Any Ukrainian and foreign company can sign a Memorandum of Cooperation and Partnership on the portal right now. Together for the future of Crimea.

To watch the statement of Ryanair Group CEO, please follow the link: http://surl.li/kougl