Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Airlines in Ukraine
Dniproavia
(
www.dniproavia.com
)
Domestic airline based at Dnipropetrovsk Airport.
Serves Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Sevastopol.
Donbassaero
(
www.donbass.aero
) Based at Donetsk Airport. Serves Donetsk, Kyiv,
Odesa and Kharkiv.
Motor Sich
(
www.flymotorsich.com
)
Based in Zaporizhzhya. Serves Zaporizhzhya, Kyiv
and Uzhhorod.
Ukraine International Airlines
(PS;
www.flyuia.com
) Essentially an international airline
based at Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv, UIA is also now the country's largest do-
mestic carrier. Links Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Donetsk, Odesa, Simferopol, Dnipropetrovsk and
Ivano-Frankivsk.
Tickets
Kiyavia Travel
(
www.kiyavia.com
) This useful company has branches across the country.
You can buy tickets online to print out or pick them up at a branch.
Bicycle
Although you have to keep an eye out for crazy drivers and keep to the road's shoulder,
cycling is a great way to see the real Ukraine. The Carpathians and Crimea - in that order
- are particularly pleasant cycling country.
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Markets everywhere sell lots of spare parts.
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Rental is rare except in Crimea and the Carpathians.
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To transport your bike on a mainline train, you must remove the wheels, wrap the bike in
plastic, and place it in the luggage niche above the top bunks.
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On local
electrychky
trains buy an outsized luggage ticket from the conductor (in the
rare event that you are asked to do so).
Boat
Chervona Ruta
( 044 253 6909;
www.ruta-cruise.com
; vul Lyteranska 24, Kyiv;
Khreshchatyk) is your only port of call if you're interested in Dnipro River and Black Sea
cruises. The standard cruise is one week along the Kyiv-Sevastopol-Odesa route. Some
cruises go into the Danube delta.
Although unreliable,
Ukrferry
(
www.ukrferry.com
) offers sporadic Black Sea cruises.
Contact
London Sky Travel
(
www.lstravel.com.ua
) for details.
