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Sales of new motorcycles and mopeds jumped by 50% last year y/y, to 34,000,​ reports Auto-Consulting. The analytical group reports: “The Ukrainian motorcycle market experienced a real “boom” in sales in 2019 and will surely go down in history as one of the most successful.”
9.1.3​ Transport sector news
● Planes
Over the past five years, the passenger flow at Ukrainian airports has doubled,​ rising from 10.7mn in 2015 to 24.3mn in 2019, reports the State Aviation Administration.
The number of Ukrainians traveling internationally by airplane jumped by 30% last year, to 15.1mn​, reports Ukraine’s Border Guard Service. By contrast, land crossings of Ukraine’s border with its four EU neighbors were flat – 36.7mn people of all nationalities. And land crossings on the Russia-Ukraine border – by all nationalities – were down by 10% to 10mn. Commercial air flights between Russia and Ukraine stopped four years ago. Further underlining the EU allure, the numbers of Ukrainians traveling to Belarus were down 9% and to Moldova were down 6%.
Passenger traffic at Ukrainian airports grew by 18.5% y/y, to 24.3mn people in 2019​, reports the State Aviation Service of Ukraine. By comparison, air passenger traffic in 2018 grew by 24.5%, to 20.5mn people. Last year, international travel grew by 20%. It accounted for 90.5% of all air travel in Ukraine.
UIA was the only airline of the top 10 serving Ukraine to cut its flights last year.​ UIA cut its flights by 5%, to 58,773, according to UkSATSE, the air traffic control agency. All others enjoyed double-digit growth. Discount airlines showed the fastest growth: Ryanair was up 438%, to 9,295 flights; Wizz Air was up 37%, to 20,944; and SkyUp was up 341% to 10,061.
Low cost carriers should increase their share of Ukraine’s market to 45% this year​, and to 63% by 2024, says Infrastructure Minister Vladyslvav Krykliy. “We will do our best to make air travel as commonplace for Ukrainians as traveling by bus or rail,” Kricli said Dec. 24, at a ceremony welcoming Boryspil’s 15mnth passenger for 2019. By 2024, the number of Ukrainians traveling by air should triple, to 32mn, he said.
Kyiv Boryspil increased its passenger traffic by 21.1%, to 15.3mn people.
Once again Ukraine’s busiest airport, Boryspil handled 63% of the nation’s traffic. With the re-opening of Terminal F last spring for international low-cost carriers, Boryspil saw its international traffic increased by 22.2%. Its domestic traffic grew by only 8.3%. To improve airport amenities and to earn more revenue, the State Property Fund announced Monday that it intends to rent at public auction 14 lots in Terminal D and 15 in Terminal F.
Traffic at Kyiv’s second airport, Sikorsky, was down 7% last year, to 2.6mn passengers​. Traffic suffered from the move by SkyUp and half a dozen airlines last spring to Boryspil’s Terminal F. With last weekend’s closing of
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