The war ended with the ambitious plans of the internationally award-winning Russian airline, which has one of the newest aircraft fleets in the world.
Aeroflot will soon face a shortage of spare parts for its Boeing and Airbus aircraft due to sanctions, Bloomberg wrote.
To keep its fleet up and running, Aeroflot will have to begin dismantling some of its aircraft for parts within three months, according to IBA, an aviation business intelligence firm. It is not possible to replace Boeing and Airbus products with Russian aircraft, at least in the near future.
Bloomberg also said the war ended the ambitious plans of the internationally award-winning Russian airline, which has one of the newest aircraft fleets in the world. Because of the sanctions, Aeroflot not only lost access to spare parts for its aircraft, but was also forced to drastically reduce its foreign route network. At the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Aeroflot was flying to 56 countries, and by mid -May it was only flying to 13. The airline’s passenger traffic had dropped.
“For the foreseeable future, Aeroflot will increasingly be a domestic airline,” said Arnold Barnett, an aviation safety expert at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Aeroflot is under US sanctions. The Air Safety Committee of the European Union has included Aeroflot and several other Russian airlines in the list of carriers banned or restricted from flying within the EU, as these carriers do not comply with international safety standards.
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, leasing companies, as part of sanctions, were ordered to terminate contracts with Russian air carriers and return the aircraft. Russia has refused to comply with these requests. In countries that supported the sanctions, leased aircraft of Russian airlines threatened to be arrested.
Recall that the United Kingdom included in the sanctions lists three Russian airlines – Aeroflot, Russia and Ural Airlines.
Source: korrespondent
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