OREANDA-NEWS. February 19, 2008. The Ukraine International Airlines aviation company and Alitalia are winding up coordination of air flights to Italy, said Dmytro Shynkarchuk, Ukrainian company director for business operations in Ukraine.

Aviation authorities of the two countries must consider and endorse the appropriate agreements between the air companies. Starting on summer, serious changes will take place in both air companies' flight programs, Shynkarchuk says.

It is planned that Alitalia will make every week four flights from Milano, and Ukraine International Airlines three flights to Milano; the Italian company will make daily flights from Rome, and the Ukrainian will make six flights to Rome a week.

"We take the situation with a lack of parity as absolutely normal and not frightening. It is much better than the one we have had all over the period of our cooperation with Alitalia," Shynkarchuk noted.

On October 30, 2007, Ukraine International Airlines cancelled the Kyiv - Rome and Kyiv - Milano flights for the absence of winter schedule endorsed by Italian aviation authorities, which was motivated by some disputable questions.

Later Ukraine and Italy temporarily settled the question until spring 2008.