According to the information on the Boryspil airport website , as part of a working visit to Ukraine, the management of Ryanair met with a team from the Ministry of Reconstruction, headed by Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine – Minister for the Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov.
The program of the visit was started by the management of Ryanair with a visit to the Boryspil Airport, during which, together with CEO of the airport Oleksiy Dubrevskyy, they inspected the condition of the airport terminals, baggage claim and passenger check-in areas, passenger waiting and boarding gate areas, control points, aprons, where they saw with their own eyes the preserved state of the airport infrastructure and its operational readiness to resume flights at any time. Ryanair’s top management highly appreciated the efforts of the employees of Boryspil International Airport to save and maintain the operability of the airport’s infrastructure facilities during the war.
Moreover, the visit included a detailed discussion of the partnership between Ryanair and the airport regarding the airline’s stated strategic plan to quickly resume international traffic in the Ukrainian market when Ukraine wins and EASA confirms the safety of flights in the Ukrainian sky.
The airline’s plans also include close cooperation with the Ukrainian government in order to support the recovery of the air transportation market at the level of the entire country, thereby contributing to the reconstruction of industry and the economy. Low-cost Ryanair intends to attract significant funds to Ukraine and lead the recovery of the Ukrainian air transport market by investing about 3 billion dollars and deploying up to 30 new Boeing MAX aircraft in 3 main airports of Ukraine – in Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa. Ryanair plans to open 75 routes from Europe to Ukraine within eight weeks after the airspace is declared safe.