Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelian has announced that one of the largest United States airlines could launch flights to Ukraine as early as 2018.

The minister made the announcement following a visit to the United States, where he held talks with American transport companies.

"We hope that one of the leading U.S. airlines will launch direct flights next year," Omelian said.

As the CFTS reported earlier, the general director of the Lviv airport, Tetiana Romanovska, announced earlier this year that Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) might operate a test flight from Lviv to North America. According to Romanovska, UIA has said that it is performing the relevant calculations and that it may operate test flight this year.