The Ukrainian airline, SkyUp, evacuated its last plane from the Boryspil airport late on 4 April.
The CFTS portal reported this, citing the Avianews publication.
The pilots of SkyUp’s Boeing 737-800 (registration number UR-SQP) turned on the plane's transponder in the sky near Chernivtsi, enabling the Flightradar24 aircraft flight tracking information website to track the aircraft’s movement.
The plane's transponder showed it was flying from the Boryspil airport to the Romanian city of Iasi. The airliner landed in Romania at 20:06.
SkyUp evacuated almost all its aircraft from Ukraine at the beginning of the Russian invasion of the country. Only the Boeing 737-800 with the registration number UR-SQP remained at the Boryspil airport.
The aircraft took off and headed for Chisinau late on 24 February 2022. However, air traffic controllers ordered the aircraft to return to the Boryspil airport because the sky over Ukraine was closed to civilian aircraft.
This was the third successful evacuation of a passenger plane from a Ukrainian airport since the Russian invasion. Windrose Airlines evacuated an ATR-72 aircraft from Lviv on 2 April 2022 and the Wizz Air low-cost airline evacuated an Airbus A320 aircraft from Lviv on 13 September 2022.
