KIEV, Aug. 2 – Following a pilot protest, AeroSvit Airline has announced that all delayed flights to Boryspil International Airport from abroad have departed, as have most of the company's flights from Kiev's main airport.
Assistant AeroSvit Director for public relations, Serhiy Kutsy, said that as of 1630 on August 1, all delayed flights from Kiev to Tbilisi, Hamburg, Moscow (Vnukovo), Athens, the Odesa-Istanbul flight, as well as several internal flights to Donetsk and Odessa had departed. The other flights, in particular, to Dusseldorf, Kaliningrad and Simferopol, are getting ready for departure. In addition, all aircraft that failed to depart on schedule from foreign airports on Monday morning had returned to Boryspil by 1400-1500, reads the press release.
Earlier, the airline's representative in Donetsk, Borys Soldatko, told Interfax-Ukraine that the situation has normalized and that all flights have commenced departure apart from two - the flight to Istanbul, which is awaiting an aircraft from Moscow, and which will depart at 2300, and a flight to Athens, which is awaiting an aircraft from Kiev, and will depart at 1800-1900.
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