The aviation power authorities of our country and Great Britain arrived at advance agreements concerning increase of quantity of regular flights between Kyiv and London from 8 flights per week to 12 from the start of the season, the press service of the Ukrainian Communications and Ministry of Transport reported recently.

Currently, there are 8 flights per week between these two cities.

Moreover, there will be 7 more routes between Kyiv and other cities of Great Britain and between London and other large cities of our country.

The Ukrainian State Aviation Administration has yet to submit its proposals to the British side.

Let's also remind that Hungarian airline Wizz Air is going to launch domestic flights in Ukraine this summer, starting with flights from Kyiv's Boryspil airport and also in Lviv, Kharkiv, Simferopol and Odesa for less than the price of a train ticket.

Wizz Air's emergence in the Ukrainian airline market is going to grow and consist of flights to London Luton, Dusseldorf and Milan Bergamo in September 2008. Tickets will have the price from 199300 hrn one way including all necessary taxes. Domestic flights' price will start from 48 hrn.

Many Kyivans are admired about the low cost carrier coming to Ukraine. But Vyacheslav Konovalov a transport manager for UBS, a Ukrainian business channel, believes Wizz Air's not expensive tickets aren't likely to stay cheap for long. He believes Wizz Air will be powered to increase ticket prices that match the national airlines in Ukraine sometime in the near future.

"I think the current sales of tickets are an attempt to study consumer demand and the flights will not take place. Wizz Air has already cancelled two determined flights to Kharkiv and Zaporizhya," he said.

But Kazmer admits cheap air ticket prices are not an advertising gimmick or part of a marketing ploy. "This is our company's philosophy," Kazmer added. "We sell tickets at more democratic prices because we spend less."

Wizz Air's introduction into the Ukrainian market has Ukrainian airlines rethinking their fees. "We are already thinking over our way of acting for when other economy air carriers arrive on the market," said Serhiy Kutsyi, spokesperson for Aerosvit.

"Our company was among the first companies in Ukraine to practice discount ticket sales. We will proceed with it now," said Kutsyi.