SkyUp Airlines has extracted its entire fleet from Ukraine after evacuating a Boeing 737-800 from Kiev. The Ukrainian airline says it ferried the narrowbody (registration UR-SQP) from Boryspil International airport to Romanian city Iasi on 4 April, a move, it says, that was taken "in the interests of the state". Fleets data shows that the aircraft (MSN 33029) is a 2006-vintage jet that is managed by Avolon and forms part of the collateral of its SAPA 2018-1 asset-backed securities issuance. SkyUp says the 189-seat jet was the only one remaining in Kiev after the Russian invasion began, with all other aircraft moved abroad in advance. The airline has been using a number of its aircraft in wet leasing services, charter, humanitarian, evacuation and special flights. In 2022, SkyUp Airlines performed 7,713 flights, transported more than 1.08 million passengers and generated almost UAH100 million ($2.72 million) in taxes to the Ukrainian state budget, it says.

Airbus delivered 61 commercial aircraft in March, nearly doubling the total number for the year so far, to 127. In February, the European airframer had handed over 46 aircraft to customers, bringing the total to 66 by the end of last month. March deliveries included 26 A320neos, 25 A321neos, three A330-900s (one each for Delta Air Lines, Condor and Virgin Atlantic) and two A350-900s (one each for Singapore Airlines and Starlux Airlines). Airbus data shows it additionally delivered five A220-300s, half of the single-aisle line's total output for the year so far. Air France received three A220-300s, while US carriers Breeze Airways and JetBlue Airways took one each. The airframer's March output was slightly below the 63 deliveries it had reached in the same month in 2022. In terms of new business, Airbus booked 20 gross orders last month. This includes an order of five A350 Freighters from an unnamed customer and Lufthansa's follow-on order, disclosed in March, for five A350-900s and 10 A350-1000s. A private customer ordered a single A319neo. Two A320neo orders by Colombian carrier Viva Air, which suspended its operation in February, were cancelled from Airbus's backlog. The manufacturer's backlog still includes 16 A320neo orders by the airline. By 31 March, Airbus had received 142 net orders for its commercial aircraft family this year. This comprised orders for 12 A220-300s, 27 A320neos, 60 A321neos, one A319neo, five A350-900s, 33 -1000s and four A350 Freighters.

United Airlines has cut back its schedule of flights connecting with New York area airports this summer to ease the burden on understaffed air traffic control systems. The Chicago-based carrier is also reducing summer frequencies at Ronald Reagan Washington National airport. The US major says its reduction in summer frequencies was enacted in support of the US Federal Aviation Administration's "efforts to reduce air traffic in the New York City area this summer". The FAA on 22 March issued a limited waiver of minimum slot-usage requirements for JFK, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports in the New York area, and for Washington National, in order to give carriers "the ability to reduce operations during the peak summer travel period, which are likely to be exacerbated by the effects of air traffic controller (ATC) staffing shortfalls". United between 15 May and 15 September is reducing peak daytime daily departures from 438 to 408 at Newark; cutting frequencies from nine to six daily departures for its LaGuardia-Washington Dulles route; and reducing Washington National-Newark route frequencies from 18 to 10 daily departures. The carrier says the frequency reductions have not led to it exiting any markets, and that they will have no impact on international flights. It notes that despite the frequency reductions, it will fly 5% more seats out of the affected airports than it did in pre-pandemic summer 2019, adding: "In many cases, we’ll replace the frequencies with larger aircraft to minimise the disruption to our customers’ travel plans".