Ukraine’s Kyiv-Boryspil Airport Maintaining One-Month Readiness

Aviation Week
Victoria Moores
08 April 2025

Kyiv-Boryspil Airport director of commercial and strategy Sergiy Khyzhnyak said the airport is poised to resume operations within a month of it being safe to do so.

Speaking at World Routes in Seville, Khyzhnyak said restarting operations after three years of airspace closure—and two years of pandemic before that—will take “a lot of work.” However, the airport has been kept in a state of readiness for when that window of opportunity comes.

“I think the main challenge we have is uncertainty,” Khyzhnyak told Routes delegates during an April 8 panel session. “We did not know how long we had to prepare our resilience plan for. Is it for one week, for one month, for one year? And now the plans, which were designed to last a couple of weeks, have now obviously transformed into a long-term resilience plan.”

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