"The discussion around the Irish Loukoster Ryanair is not a discussion about the fate of a particular airport or airline, it is a discussion about the future of Ukraine and the struggle for it.

In fact, everything is simple: or we are liberated from oligarchic "embraces" that are so strong that the state hardly breathes, and people are forced to pay for everything in dozens of times more, because there is no choice. Or we stay in the grip until we can physically endure it.

That is, or we choose freedom, first of all, and freedom of choice, or we remain with the illusion of freedom and choice, as now.

Ryanair - 1800 flights a day with 85 bases, 200 airports, which unite 33 countries. Ukraine could become the 34th. And will.

Now Ryanair with four declared destinations per week from Borispol will not affect the overall airport performance, the basic carrier of UIA is also not threatened.

The question is that next year these directions can be 50 per week only from Boryspil and even more Ukrainian airports will be accepted by the airline number 1 in Europe.

The share of aviation fees in the revenue structure of airports in the world is steadily declining, airports are increasingly earning on service, leasing, parking, advertising. All related services that generate additional passenger traffic. There is a significant difference between the hub airport and the airline that provides transit traffic.

Ryanair, like an icebreaker, must break the monopoly on the Ukrainian market. And behind it soon other low-cost carriers will be tightened also.

And this will mean that in Ukraine there was a real market, competition and the struggle for the passenger. Question: who does not benefit from this?.

To the passengers? To the state? To the airports?.

Obviously, it is profitable.

It is disadvantageous for only a few people, some of whom do not even live in Ukraine.

For the full picture: none of the airports went bankrupt after Ryanair stopped and did not close. Passenger traffic at any airport did not fall.

So, each airport negotiates with the airline, defending its interests, but arranges, having the desire. Desire - a thousand opportunities, reluctance - a thousand reasons. Everything is simple.

You can explain for a long time why "no", but you can do so that there is a "yes". Lviv Airport signed a contract with Ryanair without persuasion from the Cabinet, as it understands the prospect and plans a European future.

Now I remind my demands to the head of Boryspil, which I publicly announced on November 16, 2016 and he publicly agreed with them:.

During the first six months, the new CEO should:.

Conduct and effectively complete the negotiations with the airlines-loukostami and ensure the implementation of their flights from the free terminals B or F.

Ensure equal access to airport services and facilities, taking into account the frequency of flights and reasonable requests from airlines.

Arrange order and ensure transparency in renting at the airport and parking spaces.

During a year:.

Solve the problem with unfinished parking and provide proper service at the airport territory.

Carry out airport corporatisation.

During two years:.

Ensure a minimum of 40% of airport revenues from non-aeronautical services.

I deliberately make these demands public. Similarly, the winner must assume public obligations, have full power and the ability to fulfill the planned, and also bear full responsibility for the results of his work.

And finally:

Ryanair will be in Ukraine sooner or later. With this minister / director of the airport / UIA or without.

Ukrainians can be deprived of many things, but not dreams. Yanukovych has already learned this. If this is not a lesson for others, then it's bad. There is no escape now.

And all of us, the authorities, first of all, need to decide: we are for European integration and world investors, or we are for Honka (the former residence of Viktor Yanukovych), "the minister summed up..