Kolesnikov Predicts Prices Of Compartment Tickets To Grow 12% By 2013
Vice Prime Minister/Infrastructure Minister Borys Kolesnikov predicts prices of train tickets to compartment cars will have grown by 12% before the end of 2012, he has announced when visiting the Kruikovskyi carriage works in Poltava region.
The minister underlines, the price of couchette-car tickets will not change.
“By the end of 2012 the fares in compartment carriages will have been raised by twelve percent. In couchette cars — zero by the yearend,” he said.
Kolesnikov believes that not compartment and couchette cars are now coming to the foreground in Ukraine, but new types of cars — those in speed express trains.
“These are already archaism, all these compartment and couchette cars. Express [trains] are the thing of the future. We will make flexible sales system for them and will set minimum profitability,” the minister underlined.
In his words, the price of tickets will vary depending on terms and number of buying tickets.
“For instance if ticket from Kyiv to Lviv on express costs two-and-a-half-hundred hryvnias… if you buy it forty-five or sixty days ahead then cheaper. If return [ticket] then even more cheaper. If on the day of departure of the train, then more costly. Maybe even two hundred and eighty hryvnias,” said Kolesnikov.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Infrastructure Ministry predicts start of booking and sale of tickets for Ukrainian Express trains for May 15.