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Ukrainian low-cost airline SkyUp has found a job for its Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which it was able to evacuate from Boryspil Airport in early April. This aircraft, with the registration UR-SQP, had been idle at Ukraine’s largest airport for over a year. It was the only one in SkyUp’s fleet that the airline did not […]
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, during an appearance on the “Breakfast with 1+1” TV show, expressed his opinion on Eurocontrol’s forecast, according to which flights over Ukraine will be restricted until 2029. Kuleba noted that if Ukraine had F-16 fighters, it would have the opportunity to open an airport in Lviv. The minister stated that […]
Google Maps has published updated satellite photos of Kyiv (Zhulyany) airport. They show what this capital’s gateway looks like after the start of the Russian invasion. The runway in Zhulyany is blocked along the entire perimeter by buses, gasoline tankers, snowplows and even luggage carts. The blocking of the end of the runway with the […]
Civil aviation will not resume flights in Ukraine until full security is ensured in the airspace. This was stated by Oksana Ozhyhova, Deputy Director of Ukraerorukh, in a commentary to the Kyiv TV channel. “Everything we have as a result of tonight’s attack, we call “danger”. We associate everything related with aviation with the word […]
French Transport Minister Clement Bon said that Ukraine is “working hard” to open its airspace to civilian aircraft. He said this when speaking about cooperation with Ukraine in the field of training Ukrainian civil aviation pilots and air traffic controllers, reports European Pravda. As Bon clarified in an interview with the publication, Ukrainians are already […]
A MiG-31 military plane crashed in the Murmansk region of Russia. Source: Russian news Telegram channel Baza Details: Eyewitnesses filmed the crash of the plane. It caught fire in the air and crashed into a lake near the village of Ryzh-Guba. The publication indicates that both pilots who ejected caught on branches. It is not […]
Supernova Airlines, a part of the Nova Poshta group of companies, plans to launch its first flights in May 2023. The first routes will be Riga-Rzeszow and one flight Rzeszow-Chisinau. This was stated by the company’s CEO Jaroslaw Krasnorzon in an interview with CTS. “Perhaps another destination from Western Europe will join and the frequency […]
After Russia effectively appropriated foreign aircraft leased from Russian carriers, foreign companies are refusing to provide maintenance to these aircraft. The US and EU sanctions also apply to non-Russian individuals and organizations that would like to provide parts and services to Russian partners, an Airbus spokesman told The Wall Street Journal. “Any supplier, airline or […]
The Swiss company Destinus is working on a passenger aircraft capable of reaching supersonic speeds (over 343 m/s). The funds were allocated by the Spanish Ministry of Science following successful tests of the Eiger prototype at the end of 2022. Along with the Swiss company, Spanish universities and technology centers are working on the development […]
Ryanair will open a base in Odesa when the airspace in Ukraine is recognized as safe. This was announced by the airline’s CEO Michael O’Leary in an interview with Simple Flying. Michael O’Leary said that before the full-scale invasion, the company carried two million passengers in Ukraine. Now the company wants to return to Ukraine […]