On October 26, a Boeing 737-800 Ryanair aircraft with an EI-FOO registration number flew between Kiev Boryspil Airport and Lviv, but without passengers. This happened despite the fact that several dozen travelers were waiting for departure to Lviv, according to avianews. It's all about bad weather and bureaucratic procedures. Initially, the aircraft operated flight FR 5438 from Dusseldorf Weeze Airport to Lviv, but left for the alternate airfield to Boryspil due to heavy fog in Lviv. In Borispol, the crew had two options: to wait in Kiev on the ground with passengers aboard to improve the weather conditions in Lviv, or to drop off passengers, and then fly to Dusseldorf empty, having the opportunity to land in Lviv on the way in case of weather conditions and pick up passengers. In the end, the pilots dropped off passengers in Kiev, t. there was no certainty that the plane could land in Lviv, they passed passport control, which automatically made their subsequent flight to Lviv impossible. This is due to bureaucratic reasons..

Since the border guards and the customs service serviced the flight, it would have been considered domestic if the ferry from Kiev to Lviv was operated, but Ryanair has no rights to carry out domestic flights. If Ryanair had a Ukrainian daughter, a low-cost could arrange this stage as an unplanned domestic flight. Similarly, it was impossible to again take passengers through passport control for departure, t. this procedure is not used for flights between cities of Ukraine.