The largest European airline Ryanair announced the cancellation of its planned entrance to Ukraine after the state enterprise "International Airport" Borispol "violated the agreement reached in March this year in the Ministry of Infrastructure with officials of the airport and its current CEO Pavel Ryabikin, said in a statement of the company.

"We regret that the airport in Kiev demonstrated that Ukraine is not yet a mature or reliable place for investment of the powerful Ryanair air fleet," said David O'Brien, chief commercial director of Ryanair..

According to him, Boryspil chose the protection of airlines with high tariffs, including Ukraine's International Airlines, and deprives Ukrainian consumers and visitors of the country of access to low tariffs in Europe and a wide network of routes.

"As a result, Ryanair has no choice but to cancel 4 new Kyiv routes and 7 new Lviv routes, which will result in the loss of more than 500,000 passengers and 400 jobs only in the first year (flights), which would ensure a significant growth of the Ukrainian economy," O'Brien added.

He expressed regret that the airport of Lviv was a victim of the decision of "Boryspil".

According to him, Ryanair will transfer the capacities planned for Ukraine to competing markets, such as Germany, Israel and Poland.

"Ryanair will grow from 130 million passengers this year to 200 million passengers by 2024 and keeps the hope that Ukraine will be able to participate in this growth at some point in the future," O'Brien said..

The company in the message offered all customers who already bought tickets for the announced flights from / to Ukraine to contact it by mail for the return of the paid funds.

The Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan stated that in the situation with Ryanair's refusal from the planned entrance to Ukraine due to alleged breach of the contract by the state enterprise Boryspil International Airport, the country's largest air carrier, the airline International Airlines of Ukraine (UIA).

"Mayberg (head of the Supervisory Board of the UIA Aron Mayberg - Red. ) And Ryabikin (the head of Borispol Pavel Ryabikin - Red. ) Can open champagne. UIA can not determine the country what to do and overpay for substandard services, "wrote the minister in Facebook.