TICKETS & VISAS

Visa for you to enter Ukraine

You must possess a passport which does not expire within six months after departing Ukraine.

You must obtain a hotel reference number and letter which is issued for the number of days reserved at the hotel. Confidential Connections, however, obtains this confirmed hotel reservation for its tour participants. It is now virtually impossible to obtain a visa for apartment or home stays. A hotel must stamp your visa in order for you to exit the country.

Individual visas are date specific, good for only the number of days prepaid at the hotel.

Airline and Tickets: We recomend Ukraine International Airlines

After you contact the embassy and receive all the informations about your Visas you must get plane tickets to Ukraine and fix the dates of your arrival with trip manager.

Ukraine International Airlines is Ukraine’s leading international airline.

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) primary business is providing passenger and cargo transportation. Over the years since its creation UIA has satisfied all of the goals set out in its Foundation documents: creating a high quality competitive international Ukrainian airline; expanding and integrating Ukraine’s aviation industry worldwide; introducing the best technology and management methods; attracting foreign investment and earning profits.

Today Ukraine International has more than 40 representative offices in Ukraine and abroad. UIA’s commercial network covers 70 countries.

Ukraine International cooperates with airlines worldwide on the basis of 126 interline agreements. Through its partner network UIA serves over 3,000 destinations offering best same-day connections at competitive prices.

UIA offers more European direct services from Ukraine than any other airline, operating more than 150 scheduled flights per week with onward connections across the globe. It serves 20 scheduled international destinations: London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Frankfurt-Simferopol, Vienna, Vienna-Odessa, Vienna-Kharkiv, Vienna-Dnipropetrovsk, Zurich, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Kuwait and Tripoli. UIA also operates an extensive domestic network - from Kiev to Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Simferopol and Kharkiv.

Our fleet consists of eight modern Boeing-737 aircraft. Ukraine International prides itself on having the youngest and best quality fleet in the former Soviet Union. Safety is the absolute priority for UIA. As a result of the strong growth in UIA’s markets in 2003, the Airline increased its aircraft fleet in November 2004 with an additional B737-400, and will take delivery of its ninth B737 in June 2005. Ukraine International plans to develop its fleet capacity by two B737 aircraft each year.

UIA operates domestic network with a mixed fleet of B737, Yak-40 and AN-24 aircraft.

Its safety standards meet the highest international requirements.

UIA is the first airline in Ukraine that received full European certification that confirms the right to perform full technical maintenance on western aircraft types. According to Boeing’s statistics, UIA is the only airline in the CIS that provides full technical maintenance for its own fleet. UIA’s Technical Division also provides technical services for a number of airlines in the region: Dneproavia (Ukraine), Belavia (Belorus), Air Zena (Georgia), etc.

Ukraine International Airlines is fortunate in being able to recruit excellent, well educated and experienced staff in all categories.