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Ministry of infrastructure of Ukraine Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services EnterpriseSafety. Efficiency. Responsibility |
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| 23rd June 2020 |
| No aircraft can fly in the Ukrainian sky without UkSATSE – Inter channel TV spot |
Small and medium businesses have suffered the most from quarantine impact.
There are already more than half a million unemployed in Ukraine! And they are only those who have officially registered. For the working Ukrainians the news is also sad, the salaries are decreasing. All due to the corona crisis!
How do we overcome this? Which industries have suffered the most? But are there those who have gone through quarantine without losses? Inna Tomina has found out.
The country's main air gate - Boryspil Airport
And this is the main point of those without whom no plane will take off or land.
They guide, advise and give directions, air traffic controller Igor tells about daily routine. But if before the quarantine the team was working in positive tension - now the intensity has dropped.
Igor, Air Traffic Controller
There were usually about 120 mixed actions per shift. I mean landing and takeoff. Well, since the beginning of quarantine, when there was still cargo transportation, intensity was even more or less good, at the moment we provide service for about 40-50 aircraft.
Igor has been operating the aircraft for over 10 years. But he has never seen such an empty sky. Usually, controllers work on three shift basis. The team coordinates aircraft movements from all airport terminals. Now, the half shift is doing the job.
Sergei Shevchenko, Acting Air Traffic Manager:
We haven't passed shutdown yet, we're still in shutdown, and there is no intensity. There are no flights, we have 12 persons on shift, as rule 5-6 persons are on shift now and they cope with this intensity - it has changed their salaries.
Changed salaries - it was cut by half! And that at least saved the staff. For unlike airlines that can afford to disband people, Ukraine cannot completely stop serving the airspace and turn off air navigation.
Andrii Yarmak, Acting Director of UkSATSE:
Without UkSATSE, no take-off or landing is performed at the Ukrainian airport and no aircraft can fly in the Ukrainian sky. Our main income comes from users of airspace, namely airlines. Therefore, if airlines suspended operations, our revenues also fell by more than 90 percent.
And, by the way, it's not just the crone crisis that's to blame. That is because Ukraine earned not only on servicing of world airlines, but also on their transit. And the annexation of the Crimea and the shooting down of Boeing forced us to close the air "routes" there.
We have a very large part of our air traffic closed so far, and the drop in traffic, especially in transit flights, is about 60 percent. In other words, the whole flow of airplanes that used to pass through Ukrainian airspace simply went south, through Turkey.
Now the enterprise expects investments and "burns" financial reserves. It is also calculating millions of losses from the pandemic. |
| Source: Inter TV Channel, Podrobnosti program |
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