The Yanair airline began operating flights on the Odesa-Krakow-Odesa route on May 22. The first flight departed from the Odesa airport at 08:52 and arrived at the John Paul II airport in Krakow at 09:17 (local time), the CFTS portal reports. 

The flight was performed on a Boeing 737-301 airliner with the registration number UR-COG.

In the opposite direction, the airliner departed at 11:00. According to the Odesa airport’s online flight information display board, the airliner was due to land at the Ukrainian airport at 13:30.

The flights will be operated twice a week (on Tuesdays and Fridays). The airline will add a third flight (an evening flight on Sundays) on July 15.

Yanair received permission to operate flights on the Odesa-Krakow-Odesa route at the end of January this year.

Yanair is the second Ukrainian airline to operate flights to Krakow. Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) performed the first flight to Krakow from Kyiv (Boryspil airport) at the end of December 2017. UIA’s flights were initially operated six times per week and daily from January 8.