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SkyUp evacuates last plane from Boryspil to Romania
KYIV. April 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Ukrainian airline SkyUp Airlines evacuated the last plane from the Boryspil airport to Iasi (Romania), the avianews publication has reported.
“I can only point out one thing – the flight was performed in the interests of the state,” the company’s Director General Dmytro Serokhuov told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.
According to Flightradar24, on April 4, pilots of the Boeing 737-800 SkyUp with registration UR-SQP turned on the aircraft’s transmitter in the sky near Chernivtsi, the aircraft followed the route from Boryspyl Airport to the Romanian city of Iasi, where it landed at 20:06.
Avianews claimed that at night during the full-scale Russian invasion, the pilots tried to evacuate this aircraft to Chisinau, but the controllers ordered it to return to the airport due to the sky being closed to civilian aircraft.
According to the publication, it is currently the third successful evacuation of a passenger aircraft from Ukrainian airports since the large-scale Russian invasion: on April 2, 2022, Windrose evacuated the ATR-72 aircraft from Lviv, and on September 13, low-cost carrier Wizz Air was also able to take out its Airbus A320 from Lviv.
In addition, Interfax-Ukraine reported that Türkiye had evacuated two A400Ms from Boryspil in December.
The former head of UIA, Yevhen Dykhne, said that the airline had 12 planes “stuck” in Boryspil, and one more in Odesa, and Wizz Air still had three planes at the Kyiv airport (Zhuliany).
