After February 24 and the start of the “special military operation in Ukraine”, as the Kremlin calls it, sanctions in the air sector were among the very first taken by the West. Here is their first consequence, relayed by the Russian newspaper RBK : some flights within an important region of the Far East will be increasingly reduced.
From our correspondent in Moscow,
These are Canadian aircraft purchased in 2014, which still have no equivalent in the Russian aviation industry. The DH.6s are essential in one of the most remote regions of the capital, seven time zones away.
Primorsky, in the Far East, is a huge region that stretches along the entire eastern coast of Siberia, from the Arctic Ocean to the Korean border.
Capital: Vladivostok. But the Primorye is also remote and difficult to access destinations, such as Sakhalin and Chukotka.
Except that the motors of the devices that connected them so far now have technical problems. And since the sanctions mean that there are no more repairs, no more new components, no more support in general, it can become very dangerous to have them stolen.
As for the replacement devices under construction, like the Russian baptized “Baikal”, it is long: the region estimates that it will need six models by 2024. It will be 2030, replied the factory.
While waiting to find a company capable of repairing, we save. The number of flights has already been halved.
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