SkyUp aircraft. File photoKYIV, Feb. 13The plane of the Ukrainian airline SkyUp landed in Chisinau due to the fact that it was forbidden to enter the airspace of Ukraine. This was stated by the press service of the carrier. The company explained that the airliner with tail number UR-SQO, flying from Madeira to Kiev, was forced to land in the capital of Moldova due to the requirements of the owner. «SQO to the airspace of Ukraine. Despite all the efforts of the airline and the readiness of the state structures of Ukraine to apply to the lessor, the owner of the aircraft provided a categorical refusal at a time when the aircraft was already flying to Kiev,» the message says. about landing at the airport closest to Ukraine. For 175 passengers, a transfer was organized to Kiev. in the next hour, buses with passengers will leave for Kiev.
«Ukrainian consuls are now at the airport with citizens, interacting with the air transport authorities of Moldova and keeping in touch with representatives of the airline. Catering is organized for passengers. Now Ukrainians are being prepared to be delivered to Kiev by land. For this, four buses have already arrived in Chisinau,» he said. words «European truth». The fact that the Ukrainian airspace will be actually closed, wrote the publication «Strana.ua». According to her sources in the aviation market, on February 14, a pool of major international insurance companies will announce that they will not cover insured events of airlines flying over Ukraine. This means that all aircraft will have to leave the country. However, there are no massive flight cancellations yet. As evidenced by the online scoreboard of the airports of Boryspil, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Lviv and Dnipro, flights are operated according to the schedule. , but for some reason punishes Ukraine