The newly founded Air Ocean Airlines carried out its maiden flight on the Kiev-Mykolayiv route. A regional Antonov An-148 jet was used as the aircraft. A second unit should join the fleet by the end of the year.

The carrier is starting up with Ukrainian-made machines. This makes you exotic in a way, because neither the An-148 nor the An-158 have been a bestseller so far. Some airlines have returned this type of machine after a short period of use.

Air Ocean Airlines' home base is Kiev-Schuljany Airport, which is located within the urban area of ​​the capital of Ukraine. From there you want to fly both domestically and internationally. Company boss Viacheslav Geriga stated that at the beginning they would operate in a radius of about 2,5 flight hours.

In the medium term, the fleet is to grow to ten units of the An-145/158 types. In the first or second quarter of the coming year, three copies are expected, so that the summer flight schedule 2022 - according to the current planning status - will be contested with five aircraft from Ukrainian production. The Antonov aircraft are not bought, but via Cyprus Aircraft Leasing 2 (Cal) Ltd. leased.