KYIV. UkraineGate . 15 . September . 2022 | Society.
For the first time since April 2022, a commercial plane took off from Ukraine. The airliner, which had been parked in the city of Lviv for months, landed in Poland on Tuesday, September 13 .
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“We can confirm that A320 HA-LWS was flying from Lviv to Katowice yesterday,” Jan Petchenik, director of communications for flight monitoring website Flightradar24 .
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According to Flightradar24, the plane took off just before 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday, September 13. The exact time of departure is unknown because, “probably for security reasons,” he turned on his transponder only after crossing the border with Poland, Petchenik said.
It is reported that the airliner belonged to the low-cost company Wizz Air. Petchetnik reported that three more aircraft of the company are in Kyiv.
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Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov stated at the 17th annual meeting of the Yalta European YES strategy that technically it will take up to two weeks to restore the operation of airports in Ukraine, which is practically possible only with guaranteed security.
The first airport that the ministry is considering for resumption of operations is “Lviv” airport.
Source: Ukrgate
