Boryspil CEO receives millions in salaries, while the airport is broke and asks for help from the state
17 June 2024 12:31
Boryspil International Airport, which stopped operating commercial flights on 24 February 2022, is asking for money from the state budget of Ukraine to fund its operations. This is stated in a statement published on the airport’s Facebook page, Kommersant Ukrainian reports
Why Boryspil is asking for money
According to the report, Boryspil International Airport has appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers to consider providing it with financial assistance from another state-owned enterprise, Pivdennyi Commercial Sea Port, on a reciprocal basis. They claimed that the airport had continued to pay salaries, expenses and utility bills all along. However, its own reserves have been exhausted, so, as Boryspil stressed, it cannot do without help.
“Having exhausted its own reserves for more than two years of war, at the most critical moment for its existence, the airport appealed to its owner, the state represented by the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Cabinet of Ministers, with a request to find funding from alternative sources to preserve the airport,”
– the airport said.
Boryspil stressed that during the full-scale invasion, the airport did not receive any income, any external assistance and financed its activities at the expense of its own funds, as well as savings from the restructuring programme, deferred payments on loans and other obligations.
What salaries do Boryspil employees receive?
Currently, 750 airport employees work on a rotational basis at the airport every day, while another 2.3 thousand employees are on downtime.
At the end of last year, the company started recruiting new employees: passenger service administrator, senior engineer for emergency rescue operations, airline service agent, cargo service manager, controller, etc. Employee salaries ranged from UAH 9.4 thousand for a senior aircraft cleaner to almost UAH 22 thousand for an on-the-job training instructor.
However, not everyone at Boryspil receives such a salary. For example, the CEO of the international airport, Oleksii Dubrevskyi, declared almost UAH 4 million in salary in 2023, which is about UAH 315,700 per month.
It is not yet known how much Dubrevskyi will receive in 2024, but despite the problems with the airport’s financing, in April 2024 he already declared UAH 431.9 thousand in salary.
What Boryspil employees do during a full-scale invasion
It is not known what Mr Dubrevskyi is doing at Boryspil all the time the airport is not actually operating and what exactly he is receiving a salary of almost UAH 4 million for, but other employees are doing everything to ensure that the airport can continue its active work immediately after its reopening: protecting the airport’s infrastructure, maintaining operational readiness, and maintaining airfields, terminals, machinery and equipment.
Author: Alyona Kaplina
