Atlasjet UA (Lviv) has now secured its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) from the Ukrainian authorities with plans to launch now at an advance stage. Atlasjet Airlines (Antalya) president Murat Ersoy told TravelDailyMedia that the Ukrainian start-up would initially focus on serving destinations within three hours’ flight time of its Kyiv Boryspil primary hub, with long-haul destinations to be added thereafter.

According to its original schedule published earlier this year, the carrier had planned to serve Antalya, Baku Heydar Aliev International, Donetsk, Moscow Sheremetyevo, Odessa, Simferopol, and St. Petersburg from Kiev while other routes were to have included Odesa to Baku and Moscow Sheremetyevo and from Donetsk to Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan.

As reported by ch-aviation, of the carrier's three A320-200s, two are in operation with sister airlines ZagrosJet (Erbil) and Atlasjet Airlines while the third, now known to be former Senegal Airlines (Dakar Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International) machine, UR-AJC (cn 1390), is currently in storage at Istanbul Atatürk.