Public opinion exaggerates UIA's relations with Kolomoisky - CEO of airline

The second part of an exclusive interview of CEO of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Yevhen Dykhne for the Interfax-Ukraine news agency

Text: Dar Hryschenko, Dmytro Koshovy

- How is the current situation developing as for your dismissal? Does this affect the work, production processes?

- I don't have time to pay attention to this right now. My lawyers in court are dealing with my failed dismissal, so today I am more concerned about the issues related to the situation in which the company is. And the situation is quite difficult, because we are now at the lowest point of the winter season. The emergence of a new Omicron virus strain complicated everything, as it brought additional restrictions on airlines. Just like last year, we need little help from outside in order to maintain our turnover, to pay wages on time, go through the winter period and realize plans for the next summer: bright, grandiose and important for the company.

Unfortunately, the help that we asked the shareholders was not provided to us. The management of the company has prepared a profitable deal, which for three weeks the supervisory board has been leading in a circle, it comes back for revision, we write comments and remarks to it. And, unfortunately, our people have been living in a situation with wage arrears for a month now. I hope that the shareholders and the supervisory board will nevertheless make the right decision, and the deal will be approved for us.

So that we understand the situation in the same way, it is within the powers of the president of the company to conclude contracts of up to $ 500,000. If we talk about the company's pre-crisis turnover of $ 1 billion, then these are very insignificant powers.

And as far as the question of